Chikamatsu Shigenori

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Chikamatsu".

Chikamatsu Shigenori (近松 茂矩^?), warrior and tea ceremony enthusiast, was born in Owari Province (now called Aichi-ken) in 1695. His father, Chikamatsu Shigekiyo, was a retainer of the Tokugawa clan.

Chikamatsu was best known as a writer and his output included one hundred books on military matters. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for his writing on chanoyu or the Japanese tea ceremony. He completed a text entitled Chanoyu Kojidan (Legends of the Tea Ceremony) by 1739. The book was not yet published at the time of his death in 1778. A number of the stories from this text were selected and posthumously published in 1804 as Chaso Kanwa (Stories from a Tearoom Window).

Chikamatsu was known by several other names (this was historically a common Japanese practice) including Hikonoshin, Nankai, and Nogenshi, and Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Fujiwara Shigenori.

Bibliography

• Mori, Toshiko. "Introduction" in Chikamatsu, Shigenori Stories From a Tearoom Window. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1982.

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Name	Chikamatsu, Shigenori
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Short description	Military writer
Date of birth	1695
Place of birth	Owari Province, Japan
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