😡☹️MICHIZANE'S FALL👉🐂
Sugawara-no-Michizane (菅原道真) reached the height of his power in 899, appointed 'Minister of the Right' (右大臣), but storm clouds were gathering.
His patron, Emperor Uda, abdicated in favour of his young son, who was close to the rival Fujiwara clan.
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Kitano Tenman-gū (北野天満宮) is undoubtedly the home of ume blossoms in Kyotō.
Sugawara-no-Michizane (菅原道真 845-903), deified here as the god of scholarship, was passionate about plum blossoms (his favourite tree even flew to him in exile!).
From mid-February the shrine's orchard of ume trees opens.
Camellia Tea Ceremony