Tagami Kikusha

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Tagami Kikusha was a Pure Land sect Buddhist nun known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, tea practitioner, maker of tea utensils, and traveler. After taking the tonsure at age 27, she spent the next thirty years traveling the archipelago.

References

  • Rebecca Corbett, Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan, University of Hawaii Press (2018), 66.