Tenjin. The kami of education, originally the Japanese scholar Sugawara no Michizane (845-903 CE). Parents and children often ask Tenjin to grant them success in exams. Top. Find out more.

In 1355, after Michizane passed away, he was revered as Tenjin-sama, a god of learning and enshrined at Yushima Tenmangu for his significant contributions to scholarship and education. Nowadays, this ...

Kanda Matsuri is one of Japan’s most celebrated festivals, held every two years in Tokyo. The festival honors Kanda Myojin Shrine and highlights the community’s cultural heritage. Alongside ...

Across the country, it was said that plague and drought quickly followed, and to appease his spirit, Sugawara was deified as Tenjin, originally a kami (god) of sky and storms but since repackaged ...