Moriya Tenmangu enshrines Sugawara Michizane and is visited by many worshippers during exam season for academic success and passing prayers. Said to have been invited from Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto during the Edo period, it was revered as guardian deity of terakoya schooling. The grounds have a rubbing-ox statue connected to Michizane; the belief is that rubbing the same part of the ox as your ailm…

Moriya Tenmangu is said to have been established around the Genroku era (1688–1704), when the enshrined spirit of Sugawara Michizane—the deity of learning—was invited from Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto. The precise founding year is uncertain, but tradition places it at around 1700. Throughout the Edo per…