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SUGIYAMA KENGYO, WORSHIPERD AT SHRINE

  It is said that Ieyasu Tokugawa, the founder of Edo 
Government who laid the basis of about 200 years of peaceful
period, especially tried to protect the blind as there was 
blind person among his ownrelatives.
  Kengyo Waich Sugiyama, kept close with the fifth Shogun(
generalissimo) Tsuneyoshi, consolidated the system of Kengyo
, placed chief kengyo not only in Kyoto but in Edo(now it is
called Tokyo) to heighten the status of Edo. He also 
installed seminar house of acupuncture. Generalized 
acupunctuation as job of the blind, initiated the Sugiyama 
school.
  In the beginning of Edo ear, outdated the Heike biwa, not 
popularized koto nor shamisen yet, the blind were looking 
for new type of works.
  Moreover not all blind person could play music. Then 
acupuncture and massage became their important job.
  He himself was once turned out by the fitst teacher of 
acupuncture because he showed little talent of it. On such 
an occasion, he was supposedly devised new method.
  It was to put a needle in a thin tube, different from 
traditonal way of hit the end of needles or screw in needles
.
  He is worshiped in the Sugiyama Shrine located in Chitose 
of the Sumida ward in Tokyo due to such virtuous 
achievements. 

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