Hayami-ryu was founded by Hayami Sotatsu, a senior student of Yugensai Itto, the eighth head of Urasenke. Its head house is Tekigenkyo in Kita-ku, Kyoto. Although it branched from Urasenke, its deep involvement with the Shogoin monzeki led it toward a style shaped by court aesthetics — a character that distinguishes it from the other Sen-lineage schools.
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Sotatsu was born into a family of hereditary court physicians and was himself a scholar versed in Chinese and Japanese classical learning. He studied tea under Urasenke's eighth head and was regarded as the foremost among that generation's students. He served as tea instructor to Prince Einin, the Shogoin monzeki and a younger brother of Emperor Kokaku, and in that role reshaped the procedures to suit palace taste.
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