Artworks

Haiden and honden, Kitano Tenmangū

Artwork · Anonymous · 1607 · building · Kitano Tenmangū

The shrine of Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), scholar and poet exiled to Kyūshū in 901 through the plotting of the Fujiwara. When his enemies died one after another, his angry spirit was blamed; he was reappointed Minister of the Right in 923 and the shrine built at Kitano in 947. As Tenjin he became the patron of learning — some 3,500 shrines are his. The plan joins worship hall (haiden) and main hall under one roof by a stone room, a type later used for the mausoleums of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu (gongen-zukuri). The present buildings date from 1607. 1 Mason 2005, p. 164, fig. 199. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.