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Visual depiction of Tenjin

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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Tenjin

Japanese god of scholarship and poetry


the deified scholar Sugawara no Michizane, seated with a plum branch among thunder clouds at his Kitano shrine

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
wisdom

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.