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was a master of the tea ceremony
Japanese tea ceremony

What is commonly known in English as the Japanese tea ceremony is called chanoyu or also chado or sado in Japanese....
 and a well-known merchant
Merchant

Merchants function as professionals who deal with trade, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves, in order to produce profit....
 during the Sengoku period
Sengoku period

The was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century....
 of the 16th century in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
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It is believed that the family descended from the Takeda clan who were guardians of Wakasa province
Wakasa Province

was an old provinces of Japan in the area that is today southern Fukui prefecture. It is also known as Reinan .The province's ancient capital was at Obama, Fukui, which continued to be the main castle town through the Edo period....
. His father, Nobuhisa, changed the family name to Takeno, and after roaming the country, settled in Sakai
Sakai, Osaka

is a cities of Japan in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the Medieval era.Following the February 2005 annexation of Mihara, Osaka in Minamikawachi District, Osaka, the city has grown further and is now the fourteenth most populous city in Japan, with 833,414 residents as of 2007-0...
, where he built up a thriving business dealing in leather goods used by warriors. Nobuhisa married the daughter of a priest of Kofukuji temple in Yamato Province
Yamato Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshu. It was also called . At first, the name was written with one different character , and for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters ....
 (present-day Nara Prefecture), Joo's mother.

While carrying on the family business in Sakai, Joo, whose common name was Shingoro, did religious duty as an attendant at the Honganji temple in the Yamashina
Yamashina

Yamashina is a Japanese name family name, and can stand for:* Yamashina-no-miya oke , the third oldest branch of the Japanese Imperial Family created from branches of the Fushimi-no-miya house, presently extinct...
 region of Kyoto.






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was a master of the tea ceremony
Japanese tea ceremony

What is commonly known in English as the Japanese tea ceremony is called chanoyu or also chado or sado in Japanese....
 and a well-known merchant
Merchant

Merchants function as professionals who deal with trade, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves, in order to produce profit....
 during the Sengoku period
Sengoku period

The was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century....
 of the 16th century in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
.

It is believed that the family descended from the Takeda clan who were guardians of Wakasa province
Wakasa Province

was an old provinces of Japan in the area that is today southern Fukui prefecture. It is also known as Reinan .The province's ancient capital was at Obama, Fukui, which continued to be the main castle town through the Edo period....
. His father, Nobuhisa, changed the family name to Takeno, and after roaming the country, settled in Sakai
Sakai, Osaka

is a cities of Japan in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the Medieval era.Following the February 2005 annexation of Mihara, Osaka in Minamikawachi District, Osaka, the city has grown further and is now the fourteenth most populous city in Japan, with 833,414 residents as of 2007-0...
, where he built up a thriving business dealing in leather goods used by warriors. Nobuhisa married the daughter of a priest of Kofukuji temple in Yamato Province
Yamato Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshu. It was also called . At first, the name was written with one different character , and for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters ....
 (present-day Nara Prefecture), Joo's mother.

While carrying on the family business in Sakai, Joo, whose common name was Shingoro, did religious duty as an attendant at the Honganji temple in the Yamashina
Yamashina

Yamashina is a Japanese name family name, and can stand for:* Yamashina-no-miya oke , the third oldest branch of the Japanese Imperial Family created from branches of the Fushimi-no-miya house, presently extinct...
 region of Kyoto. In 1532, he took the tonsure and came to be known as Joo. Evidence shows that until the age of thirty-five, he aspired to become a teacher of renga
Renga

is a genre of Japanese language collaboration poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , later became the basis for the modern haiku style of poetry....
 (group poetry composition involving verse-linking). In Kyoto, he was able to learn the secrets of waka
Waka (poetry)

Waka or Yamato uta is a classical Japanese poetry form and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. The term was coined during the Heian period, and was used to distinguish Japanese-language poetry from Kanshi , Chinese-language poetry written by Japanese poets, and later from renga....
 (Japanese poetry) from the aristocratic master of the art, Sanjonishi Sanetaka. Being extremely wealthy, Joo was able to amass an impressive collection of classical works on the art of waka.

In Kyoto city, chanoyu (the Japanese tea ceremony
Japanese tea ceremony

What is commonly known in English as the Japanese tea ceremony is called chanoyu or also chado or sado in Japanese....
) had suddenly risen in prominence, and Joo became interested in developing a style that was suited to the people's customs in Sakai rather than Kyoto. Sanjonishi and his renga circle were influential in this development, as was the Zen training that Joo underwent.

Two of his important chanoyu pupils in Sakai were the wealthy merchant Imai Sokyu
Imai Sokyu

was an important 16th century merchant in the Japanese port town of Sakai, Osaka, and a master of the Japanese tea ceremony. His yago was Naya....
, who was married to his daughter, and Sen Rikyu. Eventually he became reputed as the foremost chanoyu master in Sakai.

When he died in 1555, his legitimate son, Takeno Shingoro (a.k.a. Takeno Soga ????; 1550-1614), was a mere six years old. Shingoro inherited his father's fabulous estate, and in time he too became known as a tea master. Imai Sokyu acted as his guardian.

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