Emperor Uda
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Emperor Uda was the 59th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
A garden at Ninnaji
Sugawara no Michizane
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Sugawara no Michizane was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin . In the poem anthology Hyakunin Isshu, he is known as Kanke (菅家), and in kabuki drama he is known as Kan Shōjō (菅丞相).
Tenjin (Michizane) Crossing to China, late 15th century by Sesshin, Muromachi period, Ink on paper
Sugawara Michizane in Exile by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1884
Ukiyo-e by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi depicting Sugawara no Michizane as the Tenjin (kami of thunder.). After Sugawara no Michizane's death, lightning struck the palace, killing and injuring many of the powerful people involved in his banishment, and Sugawara no Michizane was enshrined in the Tenmangū (Shinto shrines) as the Tenjin.