Katagiri Iwanakami Sekishu

Place: Osaka

Born: 1605

Death: 1673

Biography:

Katagiri Sekishu, also known as Katagiri Iwanakami Sekishu, was a Japanese artist born in Osaka, Japan in 1605. He was a government official and overseer of the Kantō region, as well as a painter, Zen practitioner, tea master to shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, and curator of the shogun's art collection. Katagiri Sekishu was the founder of the Sekishū-ryū school of the tea ceremony, one of the major schools of the Edo period. He was also the founder of the Ishu school of tea ceremony and master of the tea ceremony for the Tokugawa shogunate. Katagiri Sekishu died in 1673.