Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House

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Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House is written by Robin Noel Walker and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136072667 (ISBN 10) and 9781136072666 (ISBN 13).

First published in 2003. Built in 1628 at the Koto-in temple in the precincts of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto, the Shoko-ken is a late medieval daime sukiya Japanese tea-house. It is attributed to Hosokawa Tadaoki, also known as Hosokawa Sansai, an aristocrat and daimyo military leader, and a disciple and friend of Sen no Riky?. This work is an extremely thorough look at one of the few remaining tea-houses of the Momoyama era tea-masters who studied with Sen no Rikyu. The English language sources on Hosokawa Sansai and his tea-houses have been exhaustively researched. Many facts and minute observations have been brought together to give even the reader unfamiliar with Tea a sense of the presence which the tea-house still manifests.