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Tenjin (kami)
is the Shinto kami of scholarship, the deified Sugawara no Michizane. Michizane rose high in the government of Japan in the late ninth century, but at the beginning of the tenth century he fell victim to the plots of a rival, a member of the Fujiwara family, and was demoted and exiled to Kyushu.
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