Tamagawa Shirou Tong - Gyokusen Shirodo

Japanese: 玉川子盧同 - ぎょくせんしろどう
Tamagawa Shirou Tong - Gyokusen Shirodo

…But his tea selling activities were not just selling tea on the street, but also advocated a new tea ceremony. Moreover, as the title of his “Selling Tea Poetry” reads “Lu Tong Orthodox Style,” the spiritual background of his work can be considered to be the world of Gyokusenshi Lu Tong, a Tang Dynasty poet who was known to have shared a love of tea drinking with Lu Yu. In other words, the fairyland depicted in Lu Tong’s poem “Tea Song” was also the spiritual world that his Sencha tea ultimately sought to achieve. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Tamagawa Zi Lu Tong" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし彼の売茶活動は,単なる街頭の茶売りというものではなく,新しい茶道の提唱でもあった。しかもその精神的な背景としては,《売茶翁偈語(げご)》の自題に〈盧同正流〉と書いているように,陸羽とともに喫茶を愛好したことで知られる唐代の詩人,玉川子盧同(ぎよくせんしろどう)の世界が考えられる。つまり盧同の〈茶歌〉の詩に示された仙境こそが,また彼の煎茶が究極的に求めようとする精神的世界でもあった。…

※「玉川子盧同」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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