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Sugawara no Michizane
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道真 845 - March 26, 903) was a scholar, poet, and politician in Heian Period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in Chinese poetry.
He rose to high positions of the imperial court under the grace of Emperor Uda, but in 901 he fell into a trap of his rival Fujiwara no Tokihira and was degraded to a minor official of Dazaifu, Chikuzen Province. After his lonely death, plague and drought spread and sons of Emperor Daigo dead in succession. The imperial court cancelled his charge and built a Shinto shrine Kitano Temmangu in Kyoto to keep his anger down. He was deified as Tenjin-sama, or kami of scholarship. Today many Shinto shrines in Japan are sacred to him.
He decided the abolition of the imperial embassies to China in 894, in consideration for the decline of the Tang Dynasty.
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