Kobori enshu biography of rory

Japanese artist and aristocrat

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kobori.

Kobori Enshū (小堀 遠州, 1579 – March 12, 1647) was a Japanese aristocrat, garden designer, painter, poet, and tea master during the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu.^[1]

Biography

His personal name was Masakazu (政一).

Kobori Enshu - Ceramics Story

In 1604, he received as inheritance a 12,000-koku fief in Ōmi Province at Komuro, present Nagahama, Shiga.^[2]

He excelled in the arts of painting, poetry, Ikebana flower arrangement, and Japanese garden design. His accomplishments include garden designs for the Sentō Imperial Palace and Katsura Imperial Villa (Kyoto), Kōdai-ji, Sunpu Castle, the Nagoya Castle keep, Bitchū Matsuyama Castle, and the central enceintes of Fushimi Castle, Nijō-jō (Kyoto), and Osaka Castle.^[3]

He was though known best as a master of the tea ceremony.

His style soon on became known as "Enshū-ryū". In light of his ability, he was tasked with teaching the 3rd Toku Kobori Enshū 小堀遠州 XAK