Tea master and merchant in Sakai, Izumi-no-kuni (Osaka Prefecture), born in 1520 (Eisho 17). Born in 1520, he was the son-in-law of Shaogu. He was known as one of the three greatest tea masters in Japan, along with Muneyoshi and Rikyu. His first name was Kyuhide, and later Kaneto. He called himself Hikohachiro and Hiko-emon, and also went by the name of Gyomusai. He was a descendant of the Sasaki clan of the Omi Genji clan. He was based in Imai-sho (Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture) in Yamato Province, but later moved to Sakai and became a member of the barn-shu, casting guns and managing the Ikuno Silver Mine. He had already been close to Ashikaga Yoshiaki and had also maintained relations with Matsunaga Hisahide, but when Nobunaga entered Kyoto in 1568, he immediately visited Sakai and presented a famous Matsushima tea urn to him. After 1582, he became close to the Hideyoshi administration and was granted 2,200 goku of rice field land, and was also highly valued as a tea master. After the death of Shaogu, he became the guardian of his heir, Sogawara, but had a legal battle with Sogawara over his inheritance. He had a painting of a tamagaki wave, a Jutoku chashyaku (tea ladle), a hand lantern flower, a Teika shikishi (a Japanese paper with a red background), a Shaogaku eggplant tea caddy, a Seiko tea caddy, a Kaizan Gotoku, a Shimekiri water jar, Shaogaku hibashi, etc. He died on August 5, 1593, at the age of seventy-four.
Imai Munehisa’s tea ceremony notes. Two volumes. The first volume was originally published in 1554, and the second volume was published in 1820 by Takenami Kyuso. The first volume contains records of 20 tea ceremonies held by the master himself and 63 by others from 1554 to 1589, while the second volume contains records from 1599 to 1614. The second volume records the tea ceremony from 1599 to 1614. It also includes the following documents: the instructions for the tea ceremony held in Osaka Castle in 1584, the instructions for the tea ceremony held in Kitano, Tokyo on March 8, Tensho 13, the instructions for the tea ceremony held in Kitano by Hideyoshi, the letter of transmission for the tea ceremony by Oribe Furuta, addressed to Daishuma dated August 12, and the letter of transmission for the tea ceremony by Muneyoshi Posensai, addressed to Lifenin on September 13, Tensho 13.
This lower volume is said to have been recorded by Munehisa’s son Mune Kaoru. Included in “The Complete Collection of Tea Ceremony Classics,” Vol. 10.
Imai Mune Kaoru and Muneaki] Mune Kaoru was the son of Munehisa. He was the son of Munehisa. He was a tea master of Hideyoshi. He died on April 10, 1627 at the age of 76. Soton was the son of Sokaoru.
He was born in 1623, and died on April 13, 1623.
