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*''Died: [[1673]]''

*''Died: [[1673]]''

Katagiri Sekishû was the founder of the [[Sekishu-ryu|Sekishû school]] of [[tea culture]], one of the major schools of the [[Edo period]].

Katagiri Sekishû was the founder of the [[Sekishu-ryu|Sekishû school]] of [[tea culture]], one of the major schools of the [[Edo period]]. He was a painter, [[Zen]] practitioner, tea master to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]], [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official, and curator of the Tokugawa collections of tea implements and other treasures.

Establishing his school in opposition to the Sen schools of [[Sen Sotan|Sen Sôtan]] (grandson of [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]]), Sekishû emphasized teacher-disciple lineages over hereditary inheritance. His school later splintered into many different branches as a result. This acceptance of diversity fueled the school's popularity among ''daimyô'', many of whom wished to command authority in the tea practice of their own household, and to not be subject to the authority of the Sen family ''[[iemoto]]'' or anyone else.

Establishing his school in opposition to the Sen schools of [[Sen Sotan|Sen Sôtan]] (grandson of [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]]), Sekishû emphasized teacher-disciple lineages over hereditary inheritance. His school later splintered into many different branches as a result. This acceptance of diversity fueled the school's popularity among ''daimyô'', many of whom wished to command authority in the tea practice of their own household, and to not be subject to the authority of the Sen family ''[[iemoto]]'' or anyone else.

Sekishû served as tea master to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]] beginning in [[1665]].

Sekishû served as tea master to Tokugawa Ietsuna beginning in [[1665]].

[[Oguchi Shoo|Ôguchi Shôô]] ([[1689]]-[[1764]], aka Gansui), a later master of the Sekishû school, produced ''Toji no tamoto'', the only known text devoted entirely to the topic of tea practice for women, in [[1721]].

[[Oguchi Shoo|Ôguchi Shôô]] ([[1689]]-[[1764]], aka Gansui), a later master of the Sekishû school, produced ''Toji no tamoto'', the only known text devoted entirely to the topic of tea practice for women, in [[1721]].

==References==

==References==

*Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 49-50.

*Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 49-50.

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]