Daimyo tea - Daimyocha

Japanese: 大名茶 - だいみょうちゃ

The tea ceremony practiced by feudal lords in the Edo period. During the Momoyama period, tea ceremony was supported by a wide range of people, including feudal lords, nobles, townspeople, and monks, but as the social classes became more distinct in the Edo period, the nature of the tea ceremony began to show subtle differences depending on the class of the person who carried it out. The phrase "tea of a feudal lord's influence" appears in "The Sixteen Articles of Tea Ceremony by Zen Master Seigan," which is an awareness of the type of tea practiced by feudal lords as opposed to tea practiced by townspeople. The term "feudal lord tea" refers to the tea style of feudal lord tea masters such as Furuta Oribe, Kobori Enshu, and Katagiri Sekishu, who are said to have been tea ceremony instructors to successive Tokugawa shoguns, but Oribe's character is similar to that of a kabuki actor, and he is different from feudal lord tea.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代の大名によって担われた茶の湯。桃山時代の茶道の発展は，大名，公家，町人，僧侶など幅広い支持層をもったが，江戸時代になって各身分差が厳重になるとともに，それぞれの担い手の層によってその茶道の性格も微妙な差異を見せるようになった。《清巌禅師茶事十六ヶ条》に〈大名有力の茶〉という語があり，町人の茶に対する大名の茶というタイプが意識されている。大名茶といえば歴代徳川将軍の茶道指南とされる古田織部，小堀遠州，片桐石州ら大名茶人の茶風を指すが，織部にはかぶき者的な性格があって大名茶と性格を異にする。

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