| Date and time | Sunday, December 9 13:30 to 15:00 |
| Venue | Industrial Technology Memorial Hall |
| Instructor | Masao Nakamura (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Institute of Technology) |
The commemorative lecture at the Nagoya venue is "Owari Tea and Sukiya General Contract" by Professor Masao Nakamura, a leading expert in tea room research. The Kobe venue was a dialogue between Dr. Nakamura and the craftsmen of Sukiya, but in Nagoya, we listened carefully to Dr. Nakamura's lecture.
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The venue is the large hall of the Industrial Technology Museum. Before the start of the lecture, customers began to gather one after another, and at the start of the performance, about 300 people were almost full. Mr. Nakamura is from Nagoya. It seems that you were looking forward to this lecture.
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At first, the history of the tea room was outlined with Kamo Nagaaki's "Hojoki". Next, we will talk about the design characteristics of the tea room and the characteristics of the skills of Sukiya carpenter. Looking at the abundant slide photos of the Yulin-in Temple "Minoan" at Daitokuji Temple, which is also the highlight of the Sukiya Carpenter Exhibition, a detailed explanation of where the techniques of tea masters and Sukiya Carpenter are being demonstrated.
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From the story of the national treasure tea house "Nyoan" in Inuyama City, which I visited during the tour the day before, I finally moved to the topic of "Owari no Tea". The flowering of mature tea culture and differences from Kyoto tea culture were shown in Nagoya in the early modern and modern times, along with concrete slides from Sukiya. The guests at the venue listened eagerly to the powerful story that "Nagoya people are truly inheriting the spirit of Wabicha."
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Mr. Nakamura, who has many books, seems to have been full of topics introduced for the first time in this lecture. There were many messages for the people in Nagoya, the venue, which was a very valuable lecture.
Thank you to Dr. Nakamura, who served as Instructor for two days following the tour the day before, and to all the visitors from all over the country.
