Sugiyama Jogakuen started in 1905 as Nagoya Women's Sewing School. The history of Sugiyama Jogakuen started with our founder Masakazu Sugiyama and his aim to provide education for women. "To accomplish that, in spite of being a male, he enrolled at the most prestigious school of that time, the Tokyo Women's Sewing School (current Tokyo Kasei University) and studied sewing techniques, sewing theory and education in general. He married his schoolmate at Tokyo Women's Sewing School, Imako Nakamura, who also wanted to open a women's school, and in 1905 the married couple, Mr. Masakazu Sugiyama and Mrs. Imako Sugiyama returned to Nagoya city and rented a samurai residence located at Fujitsuka cho in Nagoya city, and on April 1st of that same year they opened the Nagoya Women's Sewing School."