Founded as the clan deity shrine of the Haji clan, who built the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Mozu-Furuichi Kofun burial mounds — a history spanning over 1,400 years. When the Haji clan changed its surname to Sugawara, the shrine became the Sugawara clan's guardian shrine, founding a Tenmangu shrine to enshrine Sugawara no Michizane. Its plum grove — about 800 trees across roughly 80 varieties of the plum blossoms Michizane loved — is a magnificent sight.
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