A Tenmangu shrine in Hasuda City enshrining Sugawara no Michizane and known for blessings of exam success and academic achievement. Venerated as the guardian deity of learning since ancient times in Hasuda's farming community, the precinct fills with ema votive tablets during exam season. Plum trees loved by Michizane bloom delicately in early spring.
Hasuda Tenmangu is said to have been founded in 1680 (Enpō 8), enshrining Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), the celebrated scholar and statesman of the Heian period. After Michizane was unjustly exiled to Dazaifu and passed away there, veneration of his scholarly virtue spread throughout Japan, and t…
Passing exams, scholarly achievement, calligraphy. Especially at Tenjin shrines honoring Sugawara no Michizane.
Derived from the enshrined deity "菅原道真"
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