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"Dog's Eyes" A man with eye problems is introduced to an eye doctor named Sen'i Shabon by a friend and goes to see him for treatment. Dr. Shabon gouges out both of the man's eyes, washes them in hot water with dissolved medicine, and tries to put them in but they won't fit. Apparently the man's eyes have swollen from soaking them in the medicinal water for too long, so he hangs them out on a sunny veranda to dry and wait for them to return to normal size, when a dog comes in through the wooden gate in the garden and eats his eyes... The first Sanpei Hayashiya was already a favorite of the time at the time of his second performance, and the leading young man who will support the Rakugo Association in the future. If he was to be promoted to a shin'uchi, the Rakugo Association also needed to give him a good name that was not a mae-za name. Kosan V thought of giving Sanpei his own former name, the name he had used to get promoted in the Yanagi school, "Yanagiya Kosanji." This was like a promise to raise him as an official member of the Yanagi school. And conveniently enough, it was also the former name of Sanpei's own father. Meanwhile, his master, Tachibana Enzo VII, also wanted Sanpei to use his former name, Tsuki no Ie Enkyo, and tried various schemes. Enzo wanted Sanpei to be the hope of the Tachibana family and his own successor. Sanpei consistently refused his master Enzo's proposal (to take on his master's name). Moreover, he did not accept Kosan's proposal (to take on his father's name), and in the end he never took on any stage name, becoming a shin'uchi under the name "Hayashiya Sanpei." And he made the Sanpei name a big name in one generation. Music: BGMer http://bgmer.net #rakugo #sanpei #inu no me