Сен Геншицу, Гранмайстор на чаената церемония, 1923-2025 г.
Сен Геншицу е бил баба на чаената гала, надълбоко отразяващ деец от войната и през десетилетия на пацифистки покровителство, бележит световен дипломат на японската просвета. His death, at the age of 102, brings an end to a life devoted not just to the perfection of a tea-drinking tradition dating back half a millennium, but to its endlessly supple interpretation as a metaphor for peace, harmony and equality.
The entrance to a traditional tea room, Sen would remind students, heads of state, royalty and interviewers, is low and narrow: even the mightiest samurai were obliged to remove their swords before submitting themselves to ritual and sitting for a calming bowl of green matcha.
Sen, whose name was changed several times for ceremonial reasons, was born (as Masaoki) in Kyoto in 1923, the eldest son of the 14th-generation head of the Urasenke — the best known of the three great Japanese schools that preserve the codes of the chanoyu “way of tea ”.
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