What is "tenjin"

Tenjin may be:

• Tenjin (kami), the Shinto kami of scholarship
• Tenjin, Fukuoka, the downtown region of the city

In Japanese mythology and folklore, is the Shinto kami of scholarship, the deification of a scholar, poet, and politician named Sugawara no Michizane. Ten means sky and jin means god or deity. The original meaning of Tenjin, sky deity, is almost the same as that of Raijin (a god of thunder).