What is Hansō Sōshitsu?
{{Japanese name|Sen}} [[File:2007 06 19 Maria Kaczynska 01.jpg|thumb|Hansō Sōshitsu]] {{nihongo|'''Hansō Sōshitsu'''|汎叟宗室||born April 19, 1923}}, also known as {{nihongo|'''Sen Sōshitsu XV'''|十五代目千宗室||}}, is the 15th in a series of [[Japan]]ese tea masters of the Urasenke family.<ref>{{cite book| last = XV| first = Sen Soshitsu| title = The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MQmuSSimVyQC| year = 1997| publisher = University of Hawaii Press| isbn = 978-0-8248-1990-3| page = 231 }}</ref> ==Lineage== [[Sen Sōshitsu]] is the name of the head (''iemoto'') of the Urasenke school of the Japanese tea ceremony. The first person in this line of the Sen family to use the name Sōshitsu was the youngest son of [[Sen Sōtan]]. He was a great-grandson of [[Sen Rikyū]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.urasenke.or.jp Urasenke official home page] <!-- no comma, see en:WP:MOS-JA#Psuedonymns? --> {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanso Soshitsu}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Japanese writers]] [[Category:Japanese centenarians]] {{Biography-stub}}