Tsuda Sogyu

Japanese: 津田宗及 - つだ・そうぎゅう

Year of death: April 20, 1591 (June 10, 1591)
Year of birth: Unknown. A wealthy merchant and tea master in Sakai during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Son of Tsuda Sotatsu. Also known as Tennojiya, commonly known as Sukegoro, Souki, Tenshin, or Koyūsai. Tennojiya Sukegoro of Zaimokuchō, mentioned in the Nembutsu Sashichō Nikki of 1535 (Tenbun 4), is presumed to be Souki. He had close ties with military commanders in the Kinai region and the Shimotsuke clan, who were officials at the Honganji temple, but he also became involved with Oda Nobunaga, who had entered Kyoto, and was a political merchant who is thought to have engaged in commercial activities ranging from Kinai to Kyushu, including managing his estates, selling taxes, and procuring supplies. It is said that he held a fief of 3,000 koku together with Imai Sokyu, and while a fief of 2,200 koku for Sokyu in Settsu in 1583 (Tensho 11) remains, only 182 koku for Souki is known to have been held in Yamashiro Uji. He was well known as a tea master, of course, and is said to have had over sixty disciples in Sakai (Choyandoki). He became Nobunaga's tea master along with Munehisa and Sen no Rikyu, and at the tea ceremony at Shokoku-ji Temple in April 1570, he was given a Ranjatai from the Shosoin Repository along with Rikyu. At the time of the Honno-ji Incident, he entertained Tokugawa Ieyasu in Sakai, and later became Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tea master, playing an important role at the great tea ceremonies at Daitoku-ji Temple and Kitano, and accompanying Hideyoshi on the Kyushu expedition and the attack on Kanto. He left behind records of tea ceremonies from 1565 to 1581, and his grave is at Nanshuji Temple in Sakai. <References> Nagashima Fukutaro, "Explanation of Tennoji-ya Kaiki" (Complete Collection of Classical Tea Ceremonies, Volumes 7 and 8)

(Osamu Wakita)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：天正19.4.20(1591.6.10)
生年：生年不詳
安土桃山時代の堺の豪商,茶人。津田宗達の子。天王寺屋,通称助五郎,宗及,天信また更幽斎と称す。天文4(1535)年『念仏差帳日記』にある材木町の天王寺屋助五郎は,宗及と推定されている。畿内の武将や本願寺坊官の下間氏などと関係が深かったが,入洛した織田信長と結びついて活躍し,所領の管理,年貢などの販売,物資の調達など,広く畿内から九州におよぶ商活動を行ったと考えられる政商であった。今井宗久と共に3000石を領したといわれ,宗久は天正11(1583)年に摂津2200石の知行状が残るが,宗及は山城宇治で182石分がわかるのみである。もちろん茶人として聞こえ,堺で六十余人の弟子がいたと伝え(『長闇堂記』),宗久,千利休と共に信長の茶頭となり,天正2年4月の相国寺の茶会では,利休と共に正倉院の蘭奢待を与えられた。本能寺の変の際は,堺で徳川家康を供応していたが,その後,豊臣秀吉の茶頭となり,大徳寺や北野の大茶会に重要な役割を果たし,九州出兵や関東攻めに同道した。永禄8(1565)年～天正15年の茶会記を残し,堺・南宗寺に墓がある。<参考文献>永島福太郎「『天王寺屋会記』解題」(『茶道古典全集』7,8巻)

(脇田修)

出典　朝日日本歴史人物事典：（株）朝日新聞出版朝日日本歴史人物事典について　情報

<<: Tsuda Masamichi

>>: Tsuda Sokichi