Tsuda Sotatsu

• Other Names: Tennôjiya

Tsuda Sôtatsu, also known as Tennôjiya, was a Sakai merchant and tea practitioner, noted as one of the first to record a chakai-ki ("record of a tea gathering").

His son Tsuda Sôgyu became one of the most prominent and influential figures in the tea circles of Sakai, alongside Sen no Rikyû and Imai Sôkyû.

References

• Morgan Pitelka, Spectacular Accumulation, University of Hawaii Press (2016), 29.