Sen no Sōtan
MASTER OF THE JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY
Sen sōtan; Sen Sotan; Sen sotan; Genpaku Sōtan; Totsutotsusai; Sen no Sotan; Genpaku Sotan; Sen Sōtan
(1578–1658), also known as Genpaku Sōtan 元伯宗旦, was the grandson of the famed figure in Japanese cultural history, Sen no Rikyū. He is remembered as Rikyū's third-generation successor in Kyoto through whose efforts and by whose very being, as the blood-descendant of Rikyū, the ideals and style of Japanese tea ceremony proposed by Rikyū were able to be passed forward by the family.