Sugawara no Michizane , or Kankō , was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin .
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Sugawara no Michizane
Kanke, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Sugawara Michizane in Exile by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1884
Tenjin (Michizane) Crossing to China, late 15th century by Sesshin, Muromachi period, Ink on paper
Ukiyo-e by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi depicting Sugawara no Michizane as the Tenjin (kami of thunder.). After Sugawara no Michizane's death, lightning struck the palace, killing and injuring many of the powerful people involved in his banishment, and Sugawara no Michizane was enshrined in the Tenmangū (Shinto shrines) as the Tenjin.
Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku depicting Sugawara Michizane reborn as the Tenjin.
tobi-ume or the "flying plum" at Dazaifu TenmangūIn their orbit 13
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Sugawara no Michizane , or Kankō , was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin . In the famed poem anthology Hyakunin Isshu, he is known as Kanke (菅家), and in kabuki drama he is known as Kan Shōjō (菅丞相). Along with Taira no Masakado and Emperor Sutoku, he is often called one of the “Three Great Onryō of Japan.”.
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