Yushima Tenjin (or Yushima Tenmangu) Shrine is Tokyo's most famous shrine of scholars. This picturesque shrine, its precincts full of trees, sits at the top of a slope in Tokyo's Ueno district, near Ueno Park.

Tenjin is the name of the deified spirit of the famous ninth century scholar Michizane Sugawara (845-903). Sugawara, a high government official, was originally deified in a placatory response to the natural disasters that hit the then capital, Kyoto, immediately after his death in what had been his politically motivated exile.

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