Omotesenke Family LineageActive Today
表千家歴代家元 (omotesenke rekidai iemoto)
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Omotesenke ( Omotesenke ) Iemoto Lineage — 15 Generations From Sen No Rikyū Through Current Iemoto Yūyūsai ( Sutceeded 2018 ); Fushin - An Head School Of The San - Senke ; Tea - Master To Kii - Tokugawa Daimyō House From Gen 4 To Meiji
Omotesenke (表千家) iemoto lineage — 15 generations from Sen no Rikyū through current iemoto Yūyūsai (succeeded 2018); Fushin-an head school of the san-senke; tea-master to Kii-Tokugawa daimyō house from gen 4 to Meiji
Lineage(12)
Sōtan's third son; established Omotesenke at Fushin-an; entered Kii-Tokugawa service in 1642 on 200 koku
Adopted nephew (son of Hisada Sōzen, brother of Sōsa IV); led during the Genroku peak of merchant-class tea practice
Son of Hisada Sōzen, adopted from Hisada line; received Karatsu tea bowl "Kuwabara" from shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune in 1723
Co-codified Shichi Jishiki (1741) with Urasenke Yūgensai and Kawakami Fuhaku; built Rikyū Sōdō (1739); architect of the senke chūkō
Inherited at age 8; rebuilt the family compound after the 1788 Tenmei Conflagration in a single year
Son of Hisada Sōkei; received daimyō Tokugawa Harutomi as a patron-disciple
Son of Hisada Sōya, grandson of Ryōryōsai; received the highest transmission directly from Harutomi in 1836
Carried Omotesenke through the Meiji Restoration crisis (loss of Kii-Tokugawa stipend); first to perform Kitano Tenman-gū kencha (1880)
Rebuilt the compound after the 1906 fire (re-completed 1913); founded the Omotesenke Dōmonkai (1942 posthumously)
Postwar reconstruction of school; established the Tokyo Keiko-jō (1956); led the 1957 Genpaku Sōtan 300-year memorial jointly with Urasenke and Mushanokōji
Renamed from Sōsa to Sōtan upon retirement in 2018; led the 1990 Rikyū 400-year memorial; current Omotesenke daisōshō
Current iemoto since 2018; succeeded as gen 15 with Sōsa name