GOKAKU

Educational success. One of theriyaku(benefits) most likely to be offered by temples and shrines and petitioned for by pre-university students in contemporary Japan, where employability and life prospects are, and are firmly believed to be, closely linked to academic achievement at school.O-mamoriando-fudafor educational success may be obtained,emainscribed and prayers addressed to the kami, particularlyTenjinwho is the patron kami of scholarship.