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[[Image:Tenjinshrine.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The [[torii]] gate marking the main entrance to Suikyô Shrine.]]
*''Built: [[1612]]''
*''Japanese'': 水鏡神社 ''(suikyou jinja)''
Suikyô shrine is a [[Shinto shrine]] dedicated to [[Tenjin]], and located in the Tenjin neighborhood of [[Fukuoka]], which takes its name from the presence of this shrine.
The origin legend of the shrine says that [[Sugawara no Michizane]], the [[Heian period]] courtier who would posthumously be named Tenjin, ''[[kami]]'' of scholarship, stopped on his way to [[Dazaifu]], to where he had been exiled, and looked upon his reflection in the waters of the Shijû River; thus, a Tenjin shrine was later built on that spot.
The shrine's name, ''suikyô'', literally means "water mirror"; an alternate name for the shrine, Sugatami Tenjin (容見天神), literally means "Looking-at-one's-form Tenjin."
The shrine was relocated to its current location in [[1612]] by ''daimyô'' [[Kuroda Nagamasa]]; his successor, [[Kuroda Tadayuki]], had shrine buildings constructed on the site.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Shrines]]
*''Built: [[1612]]''
*''Japanese'': 水鏡神社 ''(suikyou jinja)''
Suikyô shrine is a [[Shinto shrine]] dedicated to [[Tenjin]], and located in the Tenjin neighborhood of [[Fukuoka]], which takes its name from the presence of this shrine.
The origin legend of the shrine says that [[Sugawara no Michizane]], the [[Heian period]] courtier who would posthumously be named Tenjin, ''[[kami]]'' of scholarship, stopped on his way to [[Dazaifu]], to where he had been exiled, and looked upon his reflection in the waters of the Shijû River; thus, a Tenjin shrine was later built on that spot.
The shrine's name, ''suikyô'', literally means "water mirror"; an alternate name for the shrine, Sugatami Tenjin (容見天神), literally means "Looking-at-one's-form Tenjin."
The shrine was relocated to its current location in [[1612]] by ''daimyô'' [[Kuroda Nagamasa]]; his successor, [[Kuroda Tadayuki]], had shrine buildings constructed on the site.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.
[[Category:Shrines]]