The Dai Nihon Chado Gakkai (Greater Japan Tea Ceremony Society) was founded in the late Meiji period by Tanaka Senshō with the explicit aim of studying and spreading tea practice across school lines rather than within a single lineage. That makes it unusual in modern tea history, where transmission is normally organised by house. It continues today as a membership organisation active in both research and teaching.
History
Tanaka Senshō was critical of the hardening of school boundaries in the Meiji period and sought to study and transmit tea as it had come down from Rikyu without confining it to one house. Founded in 1898, the society has published research journals, run public lectures, and organised gatherings from its base in Tokyo, contributing substantially to the intellectual groundwork of modern tea scholarship. Its position — that the practice is larger than any one school's version of it — remains its distinguishing feature.
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- 大日本茶道学会 / Wikipedia
Supports: 田中仙樵が1898年に創立し、「茶道本来無流儀」を掲げる研究団体であること
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