Ame-no-Hohi (天穂日命)
Deity born in the contest between Amaterasu and Susanoo, counted as the ancestor of the Sugawara line.
Ame-no-Hohi is one of the deities born in the exchange between Amaterasu and Susanoo in the myths, and the chronicles make him the ancestor of several priestly houses, among them the Sugawara. That descent is why he appears at Tenjin shrines: where Sugawara no Michizane is enshrined as Tenman Okami, Ame-no-Hohi is sometimes enshrined beside him as the founder of the family. Kameido Tenjin in Tokyo names them together in that order, which is a compact way of saying that the deity of learning was also a man with a lineage.
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ShrineKameido Tenjin Shrine
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A Koto shrine laid out in 1662 on the model of Dazaifu Tenmangu, head of Tenjin devotion in eastern Japan, and the best place in Tokyo to see wisteria.
ShrineDomyoji Tenmangu
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It began when Nomi no Sukune, rewarded for inventing haniwa to replace the burial of the living, enshrined his distant ancestor here — and it now enshrines Sugawara no Michizane and his aunt.