Fukura-tenmangū, Shinto shrine in Japan

Fukura-tenmangū is a small shrine set on a hill in Usuki, featuring traditional wooden structures with gently curved roofs typical of Japanese shrine architecture. The grounds are tidy and quiet, with stone lanterns, small statues, and pathways that invite exploration.

According to tradition, the shrine's deity image was kept by the Sugawara clan, who took the name Ōhata, and was moved to Fukura in Bungo Province around 1590 to escape Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaigns. In 1602, Usuki castellan Inaba Norimichi prayed to a Tenjin statue at the foot of Chinzan after his falcon went missing; the bird returned to a pine on Fukura hill, and he moved the shrine first to Miyahata, then into Shōmyō-ji, naming the hall Yobitaka-dono. Renamed Tenmangū in the Shōwa era, it was rebuilt in 1895 and appears in the 1982 film Otoko wa Tsurai yo.

The shrine is dedicated to Sugawara-no-Michizane, the Heian courtier deified as Tenjin. Its summer festival, held over three days in late July, is counted among Usuki's three great summer festivals; on the final day a mikoshi procession crosses the grounds and the Yagumo-barai, a rite of driving out a great serpent, is performed at night. The grounds also hold the subordinate Yuga, Atago and Ogatama Akaneko shrines.

The shrine is about five minutes on foot north of JR Kamiusuki Station on the Nippo Main Line, or seven minutes by taxi from Usuki Station. By car it is roughly five minutes from the Usuki interchange of the Higashi-Kyushu Expressway. From the Hirasozu bus stop, served by Oita Bus routes, it is a five-minute walk.

The shrine grounds appear in the 1982 film "Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Hana mo Arashi mo Torajirō", the 27th entry in the series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi. The main hall it shows was rebuilt in 1895, after the Meiji-era separation of Shinto and Buddhism renamed the site Tenman-jinja in 1868.