Noami was a doboshu of the Higashiyama period who served Ashikaga Yoshimasa and was involved in organising shoin display, tea practice, and ink painting. He is among the figures who created the institutional basis of Japanese tea practice.
Life
Born into a hereditary doboshu family, he served the shogunal house across three generations together with Geiami and Soami. He is credited with beginning the compilation of the *Kundaikan Sochoki*.
Legacy
Noami's name is referred to throughout tea history as the starting point of shoin tea. His systematisation of shoin display is carried forward as the prototype of modern alcove display — which is to say that even wabi practice inherits its display conventions from the tradition it was formed against.
Sources
- 能阿弥（朝日日本歴史人物事典 ほか） / コトバンク
Supports: 生没年（1397–1471）と、足利将軍家に仕えた同朋衆としての事績
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Term info
- Life dates
- 1397–1471
- Category
- Term
Related terms
- Higashiyama cultureHigashiyama bunka
The culture of Ashikaga Yoshimasa's Higashiyama period, in which shoin tea was established.
- Doboshu (shogunal cultural advisers)doboshu
The Ji-sect attendants who managed the arts for the shogunal house and codified shoin display.
- SoamiSoami
Noami's grandson (d. 1525), the last of three generations of doboshu, who completed the shoin tea system.