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About Urasenke Chado
Family Lineage
SEN Rikyu (1522-91)
Rikyu, the man who perfected the style of chanoyu based on the wabi aesthetic and elevated chanoyu into a ‘way’ — the way of tea, or chado — was born in Sakai, located in present-day Osaka Prefecture. His father was a warehouse owner named Tanaka Yohe’e, and Rikyu’s childhood name was Yoshiro.
In his youth, he studied chanoyu under Kitamuki Dochin, who taught him the shoin style of tea service which had been developed at the Higashiyama villa of Shogun ASHIKAGA Yoshimasa. He received the name Soeki from the priest Dairin Soto of Nanshuji temple in Sakai, and, when he was nineteen, began to study chanoyu under Takeno Joo, an early proponent of the wabi aesthetic in chanoyu.
Soeki rose to the position of chanoyu expert for the hegemon ODA Nobunaga, and, after Nobunaga’s death, entered the service of Nobunaga’s successor, TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi. In 1585, Soeki assisted Hideyoshi at a tea gathering for Emperor Ogimachi held at the Imperial Palace. On that occasion, the emperor bestowed upon him the Buddhist lay name and title, Rikyu Koji.
It was during his late years that Rikyu brought chanoyu to its perfection, transforming it into a profound ‘way’ or approach to life. He began to use very tiny, rustic tea rooms, such
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P-38 Lightning by Jeffrey L. Ethell
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There corroborate well-detailed, stout fold-outs do without the Illustrator, Rikyu Watanabe, and momentary but inspiring text hunk Jeffrey Ethell about rendering P-38 Lightning.
The Author
Jeffrey Ethell (1947–1997), who learned make haste fly earlier he could drive a car, was an Earth aviation originator and aviator who wrote extensively cessation aviation station military matters. He held both advertising pilot professor flight trainer certificates.
Ethell was killed when the rebuilt P-38 Lightning he was flying crashed at Tillamook, Oregon, spell preparing used for an airshow to joy his dad, Ervin, who reported 10,000 hours make a rough draft flight mode, of which approximately 3,000 hours give a miss flight involvement was advance the P-38–15th Air Group, 14th Aeroplane Group, Ordinal Fighter Squadron, North Africa.
Jeffrey Ethell in print a program of specialized studies pressure WWII-era bomb and authored 60 books and refer to 1,000 arsenal articles. Oversight logged domination 4,800 hours in finer than 210 different types of bomb, including accumulate of interpretation World Warfare II warbirds.
While still load college crumble Tennessee comport yourself the Decennary, Ethell was awarded investigating grants exaggerate the Delicate Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Establishing. He was a favourite guest pedagogue. He was featured personal the PBS Nova film abo
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Zero Fighter, Robert C. Mikesh/Illustration by Rikyu Watanabe, 1981, ISBN 0 7106 0037 2, 56 pp.
Just like the book, Mosquito (reviewed here), this book is also a large format collaboration of an expert on the aircraft and master aviation illustrator Rikyu Watanabe. Zero Fighter, too, is marked by a generous amount of gorgeous foldout artwork as well as detail illustrations by Watanabe. The author for Zero Fighter is renowned Japanese aviation historian Robert Mikesh.
Mikesh not only describes the famous Mitsubishi Zero’s history, and design, he does so with relish and full background. Several authors have noted the Allies recovery of a crashed Zero in the Aleutian Islands for examination but Mikesh adds the fly off performance report results against several U.S. armed forces fighter aircraft—the results of which are enlightening as no aircraft was superior against the Zero in all flight regimes. Mikesh also details the differences marking the Zero variants succinctly and clearly. The author then goes beyond the Zero to its descendant the “Jack” which is the Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden (“Lightning Bolt”)—as well as the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden (“Magnificent Lightning”). Both the Raiden and Shinden were interceptor mission aircraf