Tea master of the Momoyama period, founder of the Uraku school.
Born in 1547.
His real name was Chomasu, and he was also known as Gengo, or Uraku, or Nyoan.
He was the youngest brother of Oda Nobunaga.
After the death of his elder brother, he joined Hideyoshi as a member of his family and was given 2,000 koku in Settsu Province (Osaka and Hyogo Prefectures) as a courtier, and in the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu gave him 30,000 koku in Settsu and Yamato Provinces (Nara Prefecture) as a member of the Eastern Army.
Later, he entered Osaka Castle as the guardian of Yodo-kun, Hideyori’s mother, but retired to Higashiyama, Kyoto, after the Winter Campaign of 1614 and spent the rest of his life in tea ceremonies.
He retired to Higashiyama in Kyoto and spent the rest of his life in tea ceremonies.
Uraku studied tea ceremony under Rikyu, and is said to have been a member of the seven members of the Daiko clan.
In 1617, he began to rebuild Shodenin, the pagoda of Kenninji Temple, and built a tea ceremony house named Nyoan according to his taste.
This was known as the “calendar seat,” or the “seat of the mistaken path.
It was moved to the Mitsui family at the end of the Meiji period (1868-1912), and was recently moved to Meiji-mura in Aichi Prefecture.
The four-mat-long tea ceremony room was the original idea of Uraku.
He owned Zangetsu kagashu, Terayu kagashu, Bandaiya kagashu, Koryoido tea bowls, Zhangseiuchi akabon, Ikkyu ink seki, and others.
Ochagawa Tamefumi’s “Kocha Oriyuden” (The Tea Ceremony of Tea Orchid) is an account of Uraku’s tea ceremony.
He died on December 13, 1621 at the age of 75.
Oda Michihachi Yorinaga was his son, Saburo Nagayoshi was his grandson, and they continued the Uraku school, but it was Nagayoshi’s disciple Oda Sadaoki (died 1704, Hoei 1) who established the Sadaoki school.
