History of Kitano Tenmangu

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History of Kitano Tenmangu
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The shrine was built on the present background at origin in the oracle of
TajihinoFumiko said for Kitano Tenmangu to be equivalent to Michizane's nurse in 947 in order to suppress
the soul of the Michizane Sugawara public passed for the false crime in Dazaifu.
From the capital of those days having been tormented by a natural disaster or thunder after
Michizane Sugawara passed away, and it having been considered to be doing of the revengeful ghost of the Michizane Sugawara public,
God which brings about rain and thunder for the Michizane Sugawara public = it seems that I deified as
Tenjin and the first Tenjin faith in Japan will be born.
Emperor, the Imperial Family, powerful clan, etc.
are said after that for Hideyori Toyotomi to have done erection erection of the buildings,
such as an existing main shrine, in the erection of Kitano Tenmangu in 1607.