It is said that Sotan was sent to Daitoku-ji Temple in order to avoid conflict concerning the succession of the family estate, because his father Shoan was Rikyu's second wife's son by a previous marriage. |
父・少庵が利休の後妻の連れ子だったことから、家督争いをさけるために仏門に入れられたと言われている。 |