Daimyo Chanin Oda Arigakusai" is being held at the Museum of Kyoto until June 25, 2023 (Sun.).
Nagamasu Oda, aka Yurakusai, was born in 1547, the son of Nobuhide Oda and the younger brother of Nobunaga. He was active as a military commander under Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. In his later years, he rebuilt Shodenin, the pagoda of Kenninji Temple in Kyoto, and went into hiding. While the name of the temple was changed in the course of modernization, Shoden Eigenin still has many cultural properties related to Yurakusai handed down to this day. What was in his mind when he served the Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa shoguns, survived the currents of the times, and retired to Kyoto as "Yurakusai" for the rest of his long life until the age of 75? His sense of beauty, which survived the war, lives on in the modern tea ceremony and is regarded as the norm.
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the passing of the Yurakusai's death, the cultural properties of Shoden Eigenin are being investigated once again. Based on the findings, we will reexamine the character of Oda Yurakusai once again.