If the founding date is correct, then this would be Kyoto's oldest Tenmangū shrine. Although dating to 905, Dazaifu Tenmangū could be argued to have begun as a funerary shrine. Suika Tenmangū is possibly the oldest site dedicated to appeasing Michizane as the god Tenjin (天神).

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Very soon after Michizane’s death ferocious lightning storms struck the city and the Kamo River flooded. A lengthy period of strange events unfurled (drought, epidemics, comet sightings, a lunar eclipse and unseasonable weather), during which his political enemies began to die...

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