However, after being falsely charged by the Sadaijin (Minister of the Left), FUJIWARA no Tokihira, he was demoted to Governor of Dazaifu (the imperial office governing Kyushu) and, before dying there, he cursed the Imperial Court for this series of events and later was enshrined as a god.
しかし、左大臣藤原時平に讒訴され、大宰府へ権帥として左遷されそこで没し、為に、朝廷に祟りをなし天神として祀られる。