Gift tube - Okuruzutsu

... It also became customary to first sign and then write the inscription on the tea scoop-holding tube. Carving the tea scoop with care was considered a symbolic act of wabi-cha, and the tea scoop would also be presented with the family name written on it (a gift tube). As is known from the fact that Furuta Oribe likened Rikyu's tea scoop to an mortuary tablet, the idea that tea masters should entrust their own personality to the tea scoop became established. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "gift tubes" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　茶杓を納める筒に，まず署名すること，ついで銘を書き付けることも起こった。心をこめて茶杓をみずから削ることをわび茶の象徴的な行為とし，筒に家名を書いて贈ることも行われた(贈り筒)。古田織部が利休の茶杓を位牌に見立てたことからも知られるように，茶杓に茶人がみずからの人格を託する思想が定着する。…

※「贈り筒」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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