Sugawara no Michizane
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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, and in kabuki drama he is known as Kan Shōjō.
