A Tenmangu enshrined in Yawata, Ichikawa, a shrine of learning enshrining Sugawara no Michizane, located near Katsushika Hachimangu. As one of the subsidiary shrines of Katsushika Hachimangu, faith in Michizane as the deity of learning and literary arts has taken root. Sugawara no Michizane was a Heian-period scholar and politician who was deified after being falsely accused and exiled to Dazaifu.…

Moto-Yawata Tenmangu is traditionally said to have been founded around the year 1000, during the mid-Heian period. The shrine enshrines Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), the deified scholar and statesman of the Heian court, and has long been associated with Katsushika Hachimangu as one of its subsidi…