The death of a Japanese tea teacher, the age
Kyoto on August 15 / WAM / Orasinke School for teaching traditions in Japan announced the death of the famous Japanese teacher, Dr. Sin Genchitsu, the fifteenth president of the school, one of the most prominent symbols of traditional tea art, the World Ambassador of Peace through this art, at the age of 102 years.
The Japanese Kyodo News Agency reported that Genchsu was previously the largest teacher of the “Orasiniki” school, one of the three most prominent schools for Japanese tea art, and he spent his life traveling between more than 60 countries to publish his message of “peace through a cup of tea” and in his youth, he was sold as a pilot in the Japanese imperial navy during the Second World War, but he did not participate in any task because of the end of the end because of the end of the War.
Sin Genchitsu was born in 1923 in the Orasinke family in Kyoto, whose roots date back to the historical teacher, the age of Nukio (1522-1591), which is attributed to the establishment of the “Wabi” style of tea.
After the war, Genchitsu traveled to the United States in 1951 to spread tea art, and became the fifteenth teacher of the Orasinke School in 1964 and stayed in the position until 2002.
Tea was presented to the great Japanese figures and international leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, and US President George Bush Jr.
Genchitu gave lectures at universities such as Hawaii University and met the late Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping, which led to the establishment of an educational institution for tea art in China and in the Vatican, he presented tea rituals in front of the Pope, symbolizing a global cultural and humanitarian dialogue.
Despite his official retirement, Genchsu continued his efforts to spread peace through the “Tea Road”, and held prominent positions, including the goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) … and worked as a special assistant for the Japanese Foreign Minister.
He obtained the Medal of Culture from the Japanese government in 1997, as the first figure of the tea world to obtain this honor, and also won the “Honor” Medal with the rank of leader from France in 2020.
Today, the Urasinke School has 167 branches inside Japan, and it has a wide international presence, which immortalizes the legacy of a teacher who spent his life to convert a tea cup into a symbol of world peace.
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