Kitano Tenman-gū

Kitano Tenman- gū (Japanese北野 天 満 宫) is a Shinto shrine in the city of Kyoto in Japan.

He is dedicated to the kami Tenjin and was built in the year 942, to appease the angry spirit ( Onryō ) of the late scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane, who had been exiled due to political intrigues of his enemies in the Fujiwara clan. First, the shrine was dedicated to him as a person before he was deified in 986 under the name of Tenjin. Currently, Kitano Tenman- gū is the main shrine of the many Tenmangu shrines throughout Japan.

On the entire surface of the shrine over 2000 Umebäume were planted, as these Sugawaras to have been favorite trees. The shrine is particularly popular with students and students who come here to pray for success in exams. On the 25th of each month ( birth and death dates of Michizane ) depends on the shrine of a local flea market.

959 the shrine by Fujiwara no Morosuke was substantially increased. 987 the first Kitano Matsuri was held, a festival which is also currently still celebrated. In 1004 Tennō Ichijō visited the shrine his first visit, and later the Shrine was then with other major shrines such as the Kamo Shrine and the Iwashimizu Shrine in the list of Nijūnisha, the " Twenty-two shrines " as the most important in the Heian time were recorded. The three main building of the shrine dating back to 1607 are held in the architectural style gongen - zukuri (権 现 造) and have a "H " shape. They were built by Hideyori Toyotomi.

On November 6 tea cups are dedicated to the shrine to commemorate the day in 1587 when Hideyoshi Toyotomi this ceremony performed for the first time. On this occasion there will be a procession of about 150 people from the offices of the prefecture administration to the shrine, led by six representatives from six major regions of the Japanese tea production.

In the shrine, several scrolls ( emakimono ) are from the 13th to the 17th centuries, which were, reflect the history of the shrine and painted by some of the most famous artists of Japan.