Shiraoka Tenmangu, founded in the Enpō era, enshrining Michizane and known for plum blossoms and exam blessings
A Tenmangu shrine in Shiraoka City, enshrining Sugawara no Michizane as the deity of learning and well known for blessings of exam success and academic achievement. During exam season the precinct fills with the prayers of students and their families offering ema votive tablets.
Shiraoka Tenmangu is traditionally said to have been founded in 1680 (the 8th year of the Enpō era). The enshrined deity is Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), a distinguished scholar and statesman of the Heian period who was unjustly exiled to Dazaifu in Kyushu and subsequently deified and enshrined 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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