Sugawara no Michizane

Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞^?, August 1, 845 – March 26, 903), also known as Kan Shōjō (菅丞相^?) or Kanke (菅家^?), was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian Period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in Kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin (天満天神^?, often shortened to Tenjin).

He was born into a family of scholars, who bore the hereditary title of Ason (朝臣^?) which predated the Ritsuryō System and its ranking of members of the Court. His grandfather, Sugawara no Kiyotomo, served the court, teaching history in the national school for future bureaucrats and even attained the third rank. His father, Sugawara no Koreyoshi, began a private school in his mansion and taught students who prepared for the entrance examination to the national school or who had ambitions to be officers of the court, including his own son Michizane.

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