Tea Master A Biography Of Soshitsu Sen

Soshitsu Sen is the fifteenth Grand Master of the Urasenke school of Chado, or the Way of Tea, and a cultural leader both in Japan and around the world. Mr. Sen has inherited the seven-hundred-year tradition of Chado and breathed vivid life into it in our century. Author Herbert Plutschow adopts a dual focus on Sen as an individual and a core Japanese cultural institution. He begins his account with a substantial introduction to the Way of Tea, its philosophy and history, and then moves on to the story of Sen's life, beginning with his traditional education and following him through the chaotic war and postwar years into the present, including his very successful promotion of Chado abroad.