Mushanokōji-senke Family LineageActive Today
武者小路千家歴代家元 (mushanokōji-senke rekidai iemoto)
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Mushanokōji - Senke ( Mushanokōji Senge ) Iemoto Lineage — 14 Generations From Sen No Rikyū Through Current Iemoto Futessai ( Sutceeded 1989 ); Kankyū - An Head School ; Tea - Master To Takamatsu Daimyō House
Mushanokōji-senke (武者小路千家) iemoto lineage — 14 generations from Sen no Rikyū through current iemoto Futessai (succeeded 1989); Kankyū-an head school; tea-master to Takamatsu daimyō house
Lineage(12)
Sōtan's second son; adopted into Yoshioka lacquerware family then returned; founded Mushanokōji-senke and Kankyū-an; served Takamatsu-Matsudaira from 1666
Consolidated the Takamatsu service; took over hereditary patronage
Mid-Edo refinement of school's wabi style
Adopted from Saga family (Kujō family vassal); contemporary of Omotesenke Joshinsai and Urasenke Yūgensai — the "three-school chūkō" together
Disciple of Jikisai; long-lived steward through the late-Edo bunjin tea revival
Son of Urasenke 9th gen Fukensai Sekiō; cross-school adoption strengthened senke ties
Son of Hisada Sōya; younger brother of Omotesenke 10th gen Kyūkōsai — both senke schools led by Hisada brothers
Son of Omotesenke 10th gen Kyūkōsai; died without direct heir; Mushanokōji-senke entered temporary lineage gap
Son of Hisada Sōetsu; raised by Omotesenke after Isshisai's death; restored Mushanokōji-senke after studying history at Tokyo Imperial University; "scholar-iemoto"
Son - In - Law ( Josei ) Of Yukōsai ; Kyoto Imperial University Scholar ; Led Postwar Growth
Current iemoto since 1989; succeeded Yūrinsai