Tea Masters - Japanese Tea Masters, II Naosuke, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Sen No Riky, Ikky, Masuda Takashi, Matsuura Akira, Lu Yu, Yamamoto Jtar (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Japanese Tea Masters, Ii Naosuke, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Sen No Riky, Ikky, Masuda Takashi, Matsuura Akira, Lu Yu, Yamamoto Jtar, Imai Sky, Takeno J, Tsuda Sgy, Yamamoto Yaeko, Matsudaira Harusato, Oda Nagamasu, Tsai Rong Tsang, Araki Murashige, Murata Shuk, Imai Skun, Kanamori Nagachika. Excerpt: Ii Naosuke, November 29, 1815 March 24, 1860) was daimyo of Hikone (1850 1860) and also Tair of Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858 until his death on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the Harris Treaty with the United States, granting access to ports for trade to American merchants and seamen and extraterritoriality to American citizens. He was also an enthusiastic and accomplished practitioner of the Japanese tea ceremony, in the Sekishry style, and his writings include at least two works on tea ceremony. Under Naosuke Iis guidance, the Tokugawa shogunate navigated past a particularly difficult conflict over the succession to the ailing and childless Tokugawa Iesada. Ii Naosuke managed to coerce the Tokugawa Shogunate to its last brief resurgence of its power and position in Japanese society before the starting of the Meiji period. Ii was assassinated in the Sakuradamon incident by a group of 17 Mito and 1 Satsuma samurai on the 24th of March 1860. Ii Naosuke was born on November 29 1815 as the 14th son of Ii Naonake, the daimyo of Hikone by his concubine. Since Naosuke was the 14th son, he was not in line for a prominent position and early in his life was sent to a Buddhist temple where he lived on a small stipend from his family. Fortunately for Ii between the time he was sent to the monastery and 1850 his 13 elder brothers were either adopted into other families who needed an heir or died. Ac... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=490711