Cherished Legend·Rakuchū / Kyoto Station

Birthplace of Tenjin Worship

By tradition, the former nurse of Sugawara no Michizane, the scholar revered as Tenjin, received an oracle in 942 and first enshrined him in a tiny shrine in her garden. That private garden shrine is said to have become the forerunner of a major Tenjin sanctuary founded five years later.

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.