利休茶の湯の確立（野村美術館） Origins of Rikyū’s Cha-no-yu (Nomura Art Museum)

 

京都の東山の麓にある野村美術館を訪れたのは、これが初めてのことだった。

千利休の生誕500年を記念して、利休にまつわる様々な茶器など展示した特別展が行われていた。

それほど広くない展示室の中に、伝梁楷、伝牧谿などの水墨画、江戸時代の写本の君台観左右帳記、武野紹鷗や千利休の消息、千利休が所有していた茶器など、多くの名品が展示されていた。

そうした茶器の中には、室町時代の三条西実隆が所有していたものもあり、代々、所有者を代えて伝えられてきたことも説明されていた。

地下の展示スペースでは、野村家と所縁のある藪内家と千利休の関係をテーマにした展示も行われて、こちらも興味深かった。

This was the first time I visited the Nomura Museum of Art at the foot of Higashiyama in Kyoto.

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Sen no Rikyu's birth, a special exhibition was held that exhibited various tea utensils related to Rikyu.

In the not-so-large exhibition room, there are ink paintings such as Liang Kai and Muqi, the manuscripts of the Edo period, Kundaikan-Socyoki, the whereabouts of Shoji Takeno and Sen no Rikyu, and the tea set owned by Sen no Rikyu. Many masterpieces were on display.

It was also explained that some of these tea ware were owned by Sanetaka Sanjo Nishi during the Muromachi period, and that they were handed down from generation to generation.

In the underground exhibition space, there was also an exhibition on the theme of the relationship between the Nomura family and the Yabuuchi family, who have a close relationship with Sen no Rikyu, which was also interesting.