Nishiki Tenmangū
Shrine in Kyoto, Japan
35°00′18″N 135°46′03″E / 35.00502°N 135.76739°E / 35.00502; 135.76739Nishiki Tenmangū (Japanese: 錦天満宮) is a Shinto shrine located in the Nakagyō-ku district of Kyoto, Japan.
History
In the year 1003 the shrine was established in the former residence of Sugawara no Koreyoshi, the father of Sugawara no Michizane (a scholar and a politician of the Heian period known as "the God of learning"). The shrine was moved to its current location in 1587 during the Azuchi-Momoyama period during the reconstruction of Kyoto by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[1][2][3]
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