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The story in the Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki is based on a text (an engi, or story of the founding of a temple) said to have been written shortly before 1194, about 30 years prior to the Jōkyū version's creation.Apart from an abandoned theory which attributed the Jōkyū version to Fujiwara no Nobuzane, no clues about the artist of the Jōkyū version have survived. However, the texts, present only in the first six scrolls, could be attributed in part to the sponsor, Kujō Michiie, according to Minamoto Toyomune.Kujō Michiie donated the Jōkyū version to the Kitano Tenmangū shrine, probably to strengthen the political position of the Kujō family in the early 13th century (an unstable period).
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