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unusual facts about Sen Rikyū



Sen Sōshitsu

The first person in this line of the Sen family to use the name Sōshitsu was the youngest son of Sen Sōtan; in other words, a great-grandson of Sen Rikyū.

Urasenke

The san-Senke derive from Sen Rikyū, and it was not until after the era of his grandson, Sen Sōtan, that the three separate lines of the family came into being.


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Mizuya

According to A.L. Sadler, the earliest extant example of a space attached to a chashitsu (room intended for the tea ceremony) that is describable as a mizuya exists at the Taian, a chashitsu designed by Sen Rikyū.

Omotesenke

The Omotesenke estate, known by the name of its representative tea room, the "Fushin-an" (不審庵), was where Sen Rikyū's son-in-law, Sen Shōan, reestablished the Kyoto Sen household after Rikyū's death.