Kyuden Gisei was built in middle 12th century in the Bayushi provinces to provide a single home for those samurai fostered to the Scorpion. It quickly developed a reputation as a center of learning and culture. Many Shosuro Actors lived within the palace, and they provided outsiders with a false image of the Scorpion's true nature, sending away those who were expected to be experts in the Scorpion ways with little true understanding of how and why the Scorpion operated.