A group of well-loved shrines, with branches all across Japan, are affectionately known ... forcing him to live 500km away in Dazaifu, Fukuoka. Michizane longed for a plum tree that grew by ...

DAZAIFU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Braving wintery cold weather, people dressed in exquisite period costumes recited poems at the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine here on March 3. Thirteen participants re ...

DAZAIFU, Fukuoka Prefecture--At the foot of 829 ... their ascent on the morning of May 12 around ponds near Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine here. “It takes 40 or so days for them to reach the mountain ...