Hime sabi

The tea ceremony that Kanamori Sowa studied and created for himself was flexible while incorporating the styles of Sen Doan, Kobori Enshu and Furuta Oribe, and his soft and graceful tea style was known as ‘Hime(Princess) Sowa’, loved by the court nobles of Kyoto, and is said to have had a great influence on the court tea ceremony that was established later. He was once invited by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Edo Shogunate. The lineage continues to this day as the Sowa school of tea ceremony.