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Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House
Author(s): Robin Noel Walker (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 20 Nov. 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415944031
- ISBN-13: 9780415944038
Book Description
First published in 2003. Built in 1628 at the Koto-in temple in the precincts of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto, the Shoko-ken is a late medieval daime sukiya Japanese tea-house. It is attributed to Hosokawa Tadaoki, also known as Hosokawa Sansai, an aristocrat and daimyo military leader, and a disciple and friend of Sen no Riky?. This work is an extremely thorough look at one of the few remaining tea-houses of the Momoyama era tea-masters who studied with Sen no Rikyu. The English language sources on Hosokawa Sansai and his tea-houses have been exhaustively researched. Many facts and minute observations have been brought together to give even the reader unfamiliar with Tea a sense of the presence which the tea-house still manifests.
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