Japanese Tea House at Pasadena, Calif. to Go to Japan for R

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Teresa Watanabe, A ceremonial departure; A Pasadena teahouse, falling on
hard times, will be sent to Japan for restoration, then return to grace a
new garden at the Huntington Library. Los Angeles Times, Sept. 12, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0913-teahouse-20100913,0,1733678.story
("Tea was first taken to Japan from China by a Buddhist monk in the 9th
century. But it was not until the 16th century that Sen Rikyu perfected the
Way of Tea by incorporating into it Zen elements of simplicity and oneness
with nature")

Note:
(a) SEN no Rikyu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen_no_Riky%C5%AB
(also known simply as Sen Rikyū; 千 利休; 1522-1591; His father was a
warehouse owner named TANAKA Yōhei (田中 与兵衛), who later in life also
used the family name Sen)
(b) Way of Tea 茶道
(c) Zen 禅
(d) The Huntington Library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huntington_Library
(Formerly the residence of Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and his wife,
Arabella Huntington (1850–1924), the Huntington Art Gallery opened in 1928
as the first public art gallery in Southern California)
(e) San Marino, California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino,_California
(a city in Los Angeles County)
(f) Urasenke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urasenke
(Urasenke (裏千, lit. "the rear Sen house/family") is the name of one of the
main schools of Japanese tea ceremony. It is one of the san-Senke 三千家 (
three Sen houses/families); the other two are Omotesenke 表千家 and Mushakō
jisenke 武者小路千家)
(g) Urasenke Tankokai 裏千家 淡交会
(h) Shōji 障子
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji
(i) caddy (n; Malay kati catty): "a small box, can, or chest used especially
to keep tea in"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(j) The Japanese family name Hori is probably 堀.
(k) Rose of Sharon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_of_Sharon
(section 2 Modern use: "Rose of Sharon is also commonly applied to two
different plants, neither of which is likely to have been the plant from the
Bible")
(l) Lespedeza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lespedeza
(in the pea family; commonly known as Bush clover or Japanese clover)
(m) arbor
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arbor
(n) For Tantansai and Hounsai, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urasenke

generation......................name ..................................
religious pssudonym
"14th .........Sekisō Sōshitsu (1893-1964) 碩叟 宗室 .....Tantansai (AKA:
Mugensai) 淡々斎 (無限斎)
"15th .........Hansō Sōshitsu (Sen Genshitsu) (b. April 19, 1923) 汎叟 宗
室 .....Hōunsai

鵬雲斎 is this "Grand Master of the Phoenix Cloud visited Los Angeles four
decades ago," in 1965. Paragraph 1.
(o) Sosei MATSUMOTO 松本 宗静
http://www.discovernikkei.org/ja/interviews/profiles/113/
(p) acculturation (n): "cultural modification of an individual, group, or
people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture"


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