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*''Birth: [[1702]]''
*''Death: [[1772]]/12/9''
*''Japanese'': 米山検校 ''(Yoneyama Kengyou)''
Yoneyama Kengyô was an [[Edo]]-based blind moneylender, and the great-grandfather of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]].
Kengyô grew up in a village in [[Echigo province]], and was blind either from birth, or since childhood; as a young man, he traveled to [[Edo]] to seek his fortune. He found success as both a moneylender (a profession commonly performed by the blind), and acupuncturist, and eventually worked his way up to the top rank in the blindmen's guild. He also established a school for the blind, and during the Hôreki famine, returned to his hometown and contributed to relief efforts.
Kengyô managed to have his third son, [[Otani Heizo|Heizô]], adopted into the [[Otani clan|Otani samurai family]], as the family head's heir, and earned some degree of prestige or status as a result.
He took the name Yoneyama Kengyô in his old age, and is said to have destroyed the evidence of outstanding loans, and left to his nine children 300,000 [[currency|gold pieces]] and seventeen plots of land in Edo.
==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p169.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B1%B3%E5%B1%B1%E6%A4%9C%E6%A0%A1 Yoneyama Kengyô]." ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' 日本人名大辞典. Kodansha, 2009.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]
*''Death: [[1772]]/12/9''
*''Japanese'': 米山検校 ''(Yoneyama Kengyou)''
Yoneyama Kengyô was an [[Edo]]-based blind moneylender, and the great-grandfather of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]].
Kengyô grew up in a village in [[Echigo province]], and was blind either from birth, or since childhood; as a young man, he traveled to [[Edo]] to seek his fortune. He found success as both a moneylender (a profession commonly performed by the blind), and acupuncturist, and eventually worked his way up to the top rank in the blindmen's guild. He also established a school for the blind, and during the Hôreki famine, returned to his hometown and contributed to relief efforts.
Kengyô managed to have his third son, [[Otani Heizo|Heizô]], adopted into the [[Otani clan|Otani samurai family]], as the family head's heir, and earned some degree of prestige or status as a result.
He took the name Yoneyama Kengyô in his old age, and is said to have destroyed the evidence of outstanding loans, and left to his nine children 300,000 [[currency|gold pieces]] and seventeen plots of land in Edo.
==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p169.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B1%B3%E5%B1%B1%E6%A4%9C%E6%A0%A1 Yoneyama Kengyô]." ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' 日本人名大辞典. Kodansha, 2009.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]
