Oda Urakusai

Japanese: 織田有楽斎 - おだ・うらくさい

Year of death: December 13, 1622 (January 24, 1622)
Year of birth: Tenbun 16 (1547)
A feudal lord and tea master in the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. Younger brother of Oda Nobunaga. Founder of the Uraku school of tea ceremony. Commonly known as Gengo, his given name was Nagamasu. After the Honnoji Incident, he served Toyotomi Hideyoshi and became a member of the Otogishu, receiving 2,000 koku in Settsu. In 1590, he shaved his head and took the name Uraku. In 1594, when Hideyoshi visited the residence of Maeda Toshiie, he instructed him in the etiquette of the room, which made him famous. In the Battle of Sekigahara, he sided with the Tokugawa and was given 30,000 koku in Yamato. In the Winter Siege of Osaka, he entered Osaka Castle as Yodo-dono's uncle, but continued to act as an intermediary between Ieyasu and Ieyasu. After the war, he retired to Nijo, Kyoto, and did not participate in the Summer Siege. He later gave 10,000 koku to his fourth son Nagamasa, and another 10,000 koku to his fifth son Hisanaga, and used the remaining 10,000 koku as his own pension. In 1618, he rebuilt Shoden-in at Kennin-ji Temple in Kyoto and moved there. The two-and-a-half-tatami-mat teahouse Joan (a national treasure) built within the temple at that time still stands in Inuyama City. He learned the tea ceremony from Rikyu, but rather developed his own style of tea. It was passed on to his grandson Nagayoshi, Oda Sadaoki, the grandson of Nobunaga, and Takahashi Gentan, also known as Gion Gentan, who was the resident monk of Myokoku-ji Temple in Sakai and served as Uraku's tea master, and later founded the Uraku school. <References> Sakaguchi Chikumo, "The Life of Tea Master Oda Uraku"

(Akio Tanihata)

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没年：元和7.12.13(1622.1.24)
生年：天文16(1547)
安土桃山・江戸前期の大名,茶人。織田信長の弟。茶道有楽流の祖。通称源五,名は長益。本能寺の変後,豊臣秀吉に仕えて御伽衆となり摂津の内で2000石を領し,天正18(1590)年剃髪して有楽と号した。文禄3(1594)年,秀吉の前田利家邸への御成に際しては室礼などを指導し,その名を高めた。関ケ原の戦には徳川方に属して,大和で3万石を与えられた。大坂冬の陣には淀君の叔父に当たることから大坂城に入ったが,なお家康との間の斡旋を続けた。戦後は京都二条に隠棲し,夏の陣には加わらなかった。その後4男長政に1万石,5男尚長に同じく1万石を分与し,残り1万石を自らの養老料とした。元和4(1618)年,京都建仁寺に正伝院を再興して移住。このとき院内に作られた二畳半台目の茶室如庵(国宝)は犬山市に現存。茶の湯は利休に学んだが,むしろ独自の茶風を展開した。孫の長好や信長の孫織田貞置,さらに堺妙国寺の住僧で有楽の茶頭役を勤めた,祇園玄旦とも呼ばれた高橋玄旦らに引き継がれ,のちに有楽流が開かれた。<参考文献>坂口筑母『茶人織田有楽の生涯』

(谷端昭夫)

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