Omotesenke Fuhakuryu

A school of tea ceremony founded by Kawakami Soju (1779-1844). Succeeding Kawakami Soju (1763-1809), a disciple of Kawakami Fuhaku, the founder of the Fuhaku school, and the tea master of Lord Arima of Kurume, Chikuzen Province (Fukuoka Prefecture), Soju served Lord Arima, instructed Yanagiwara ware, and left the tea tradition in Ashikaga, Shimotsuke (Tochigi Prefecture), thus laying the foundations for the Kawakami Sojun family. His successor, Shishi Sojun (1810-75), became the second head of the Omotesenke Fuhaku school. The third head of the school, Renshin Sojun (1838-1908), made an effort to collect tea utensils and was also skilled in appraising them, and his disciples included such great connoisseurs of modern tea ceremony as Magoshi Kasei, Masuda Don'o, Masuda Koen, Shikimori Kagyu, and Yasuda Shosai. A succession ceremony for the fifth head of the school, Sojun, was held in 1953 (Showa 28). He is currently the eighth head of the school and is based at Kyūan in Koenji, Suginami Ward, Tokyo.

[Kouichi Tsutsui]

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川上宗寿(そうじゅ)（1779―1844）を流祖とする茶道の一流派。不白流の開祖川上不白の門弟で、筑前(ちくぜん)国（福岡県）久留米(くるめ)藩主有馬侯の茶道となった川上宗什(そうじゅう)（1763―1809）の跡を継いだ宗寿は、有馬侯に仕え、柳原(やなぎわら)焼の指導にあたったり、下野(しもつけ)（栃木県）足利(あしかが)にその茶系を残したりして、川上宗順家の基礎を築いた。その嗣子(しし)宗順（1810―75）は表千家不白流2世を継いだ。ついで3世蓮心(れんしん)宗順（1838―1908）は茶器の収集に努め、鑑識にも長じており、門人に馬越化生(まごしかせい)、益田鈍翁(どんおう)、益田紅艶(こうえん)、式守蝸牛(しきもりかぎゅう)、安田松斎(しょうさい)らの近代の大数寄者(すきしゃ)がいる。1953年（昭和28）には5世宗順の襲名披露宴会が催された。現在、東京都杉並区高円寺の鳩庵で、8世家元を継承している。

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