Sugawara no Michizane was a poet, scholar, and one of the most powerful men in late 9th century Japan. But for centuries he has been worshiped as "Tenjin", a god first associated with thunder, and later with learning. This video tells the story of how that happened. → MUSIC "Perfume JPN The Opening Gagaku cover 序・雅楽風" By: fionga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039hN71wLtw "Haru no Umi" By: 本城虎重 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPPHxVNjQvM "Shizima3" By: PeriTune - Royalty Free Music Material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCHbcXoKPQM "Kami (神)" By: Adrian von Ziegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzQ2oYMfo5U "Between Worlds" By: Adrian von Ziegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbftqekNkVY → SOURCES https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/person/SUGAWARA%20no%20Michizane.html https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/person/SUGAWARA%20no%20Koreyoshi.html https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/Shinto/Tenjin-shinko%20Faith.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sugawara-Michizane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugawara_no_Michizane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenjin_(kami) http://kansai-odyssey.com/sugawara-no-michizane-japans-famous-scholar/ https://jref.com/articles/sugawara-no-michizane.201/ https://www.ancient.eu/Tenjin/ https://kyoto.travel/en/shrine_temple/142.html