Osaka Tenmangu

Osaka Tenmangu sits in Tenma, an area close to Osaka Station, and people know it as Tenma no Tenjin-san. It was founded in 949. Shrine tradition says that in 901 Sugawara no Michizane, then Minister of the Right, lost a power struggle at court, and on his way into exile at Dazaifu he stopped to pray at the Daishogun shrine that stood on the present grounds. After Michizane died, in 949, seven pine trees grew overnight in front of that Daishogun shrine and their tips glowed night after night. Emperor Murakami heard of it and had Michizane enshrined there, and that is taken as the beginning of the shrine. Since then it has been the tutelary shrine of the Tenma district and a shrine of learning and the performing arts, a place local people and Osaka merchants have turned to. On 24 and 25 July the Tenjin Matsuri, held here for more than a thousand years, brings three thousand people in ancient dress through the streets, a fleet of over a hundred boats onto the river at dusk and some five thousand fireworks overhead.

Translated from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).

Osaka Prefecture's list of designated cultural properties names this place as the owner of 6. Objects are not necessarily on view.

大阪府 文化財一覧 (CC BY 4.0), current at 2024-05-01. Joined by owner name; long names are shortened to the buildings or the object.