Furuichi Chōin (1452–1508) (a.k.a. Furuichi Harima) was a minor Japanese lord and cha-no-yu aficionado during the Sengoku period. A disciple of Murata Jukō, he was the recipient of Jukō's treatise on the tea ceremony, Kokoro no fumi (心の手紙 "Letter of the heart").[1] He also received the Shinkei Sōzu Teikin, an essay on the composition of renga poetry, from Inawashiro Kensai.[2]
Chōin was an acolyte at the temple at Kōfuku-ji,[3] having been sent to study there at the age of 13. Ten years later, he became the leader of a group of warrior monks.[4] He later became daimyō of Furuichi, a small town near Nara, and his family developed a reputation as patrons of the arts. Chōin and his brother Chōei developed the practice of rinkan chanoyu (combining the tea ceremony with the practice of communal bathing).[5]
References
edit- ^ Jennifer Lea Anderson (1 January 1991). An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual. SUNY Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7914-0749-3.
- ^ H. Paul Varley; Isao Kumakura (January 1989). Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 21. ISBN 978-0-8248-1717-6.
- ^ Sōshitsu Sen (1998). The Japanese way of tea: from its origins in China to Sen Rikyū. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-8248-1897-5.
- ^ Morgan Pitelka (16 October 2013). Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History and Practice. Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-134-53531-6.
- ^ Chanoyu. Urasenke Foundation of Kyoto, Japan. 1981. pp. 7, 52.
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