He was invited by Naritaka TOKUGAWA, the twelfth head of the Owari Tokugawa family to give his expert opinion and teach the chief retainer of the castle Hogetsu of Imao clan; consequently, he taught tea ceremony to a wide range of daimyo retainers and court nobles and was called the restorer of the Enshu school of tea ceremony. 尾張徳川家12代徳川斉荘に招かれて目利きを行い、その城代家老今尾藩篷月侯に相伝するなど、大名旗本、公家などに幅広く茶道教授を行い遠州流中興と称せられる。 |