During the Edo period, the image of Michizane as a vengeful spirit began to lose favor as he came to be regarded as the patron of scholars, and divisions of Kitano-tenmangu Shrine's Tenjin deity enshrined in Terakoya (private elementary schools in Edo period).
江戸時代には道真の御霊としての性格は薄れ、学問の神として広く信仰されるようになり、寺子屋などで当社の分霊が祀られた。