Yoshibei Okumura, Sen's Ten Craftsmen, Mounting Artist

・・・・・・＜Reference materials＞・・・・・・
[List of the Ten Senke Craftsmen] The following craftsmen
1. Tea bowl maker Raku Kichizaemon
1. Kettle maker Seiemon Onishi
1. Lacquer artist Sotetsu Nakamura
1. Joiner Komazawa Risai
1. Metalworker Jyoeki Nakagawa
1. Bag maker Tomoko Tsuchida
1. Mounting artist Yoshibei Okumura
1. Ikkanbari craftsman Hirai Ikkan
1. Bamboo craftsman and ladle maker, Shogen Kuroda
1. Earthenware stove and potter, Nishimura (Eiraku) Zengoro

・・・・＜Reference material: Tankosha's "The Current Ten Craftsmen of the Sen Family">・・・・・
[Kichibei Okumura (paper mounter): also known as Kyoji.]
☆ The Okumura family claims to be descendants of the Sasaki clan, and is said to have been local samurai of "Taninosho" in the northern part of Omi Province. During the reign of Saburo Okumura Sadamichi, after the Battle of Anegawa, the head family, the Azai clan, was destroyed and the family became ronin. Sadamichi's son, Genrokuro Okumura Sadatsugu, had his eldest son, Genshiro, serve under Toshiie Maeda, and the eldest son later took the name "Sadamitsu Okumura, Settsu no Kami" and became a samurai of the Kaga domain.
☆ The second son, Kiyosada Yoshiemon, did not join the government but took over his mother's family business and became a merchant, working as a paperhanger in Kyoto. This Kiyosada is considered to be the first.
☆ (The sixth generation Yoshibei conducted extensive research to compile the achievements of the Okumura family, documenting the family tree and records of mounting work by successive generations.)
○ First generation Kikuemon [real name "Seitei" and Buddhist name after entering the priesthood "Munesei"] (1618, 4th year of the Genna era - 1700, 13th year of the Genroku era, September)
*He went to Kyoto in 1646 and changed his occupation from samurai to merchant. In 1651, he opened a paper-hanging shop and took the name "Omiya Kichibei." His wife was the aunt of Kameda Kuraku, a friend of Baisaou and a well-known calligrapher. The calligraphy on the "paper-hanging" curtain that still hangs at the entrance to the Okumura family home is said to have been written by Kuraku.
○ The second generation Yoshibei (pen name "Kyuui"; eldest son of the first generation) (1633-December 1719)
*In 1698, with the help of the 6th head of the Omotesenke school, Kakusensai, the company became a purveyor to the Kishu Tokugawa family and also to the Omotesenke school.
●Kichikuro: The eldest son of the second generation Kichibei. Died at the early age of 25
○The third generation, Yoshibei (after becoming a monk, he took the Buddhist name Kyusei) (the second generation, Yoshibei's adopted son-in-law) (1666-March 1743)
* He was born into the Matsuyama family of Madota Village, Asai County, Omi Province. He is known as a writer of kyoka poems and calligrapher.
○The fourth generation Yoshigoro [Buddhist name "Dojun"] (adopted son-in-law of the third generation Yoshibei) (1737-November 1781)
* Born into the Tanabe family of Takatsuki Village, Ika County, Omi Province.
○ The fifth generation Yoshibei (after entering the priesthood he took the Buddhist name "Ryōsei") (adopted son-in-law of the third generation Yoshibei) (1755-August 1825)
* Born into the Matsui family of Takatsuki Village, Ika County, Omi Province.
*After he became a monk in the Tenmei fire of 1788, he adopted the Buddhist name "Ryōsei". He lost all of his family traditions in the fire. Among the famous triptychs by Tosa Mitsumasa, a collaboration between the three schools of tea ceremony, he mounted the painting with the approval of two of them: Ryojōsai (Hōjū) from the Omotesenke school and Chōtokusai (Kozuchi) from the Urasenke school.
○The 6th generation Yoshibei (pen name "Kyuei") (adopted son-in-law of the 4th generation Yoshigoro) (1780-August 1848)
* Born into the Miyabe family of Takatsuki Village, Ika County, Omi Province.
He became interested in compiling historical materials and decided to recompile the family traditions that had been lost in the Tenmei fire. He wrote the "Okumura Family Genealogy" and the "Senke Imperial Collection of Favorite Mountings and Various Colors," in the dry and kun volumes, and made a great contribution by passing on to future generations valuable materials such as the style of tea utensils and the rules of tea ceremonies.
○ The seventh generation Kichijiro [pen name "Kyuun"] (adopted son-in-law of the sixth generation Kichibei: died before his father-in-law) (1795-September 1837)
○Yatsushiro Yoshibei [pen name "?sho[1], "Kakushindo"] (1804-July 1867)
*He is said to be the most "master of mounting" among all generations. He was interested in academics, and studied Confucianism under Okamoto Koseki, who later became the chief retainer of the Hikone domain. Through his introduction, he became friends with the couple Yanagawa Seigan and Koran. Later, he became a monk and took the name "Koan."
○The 9th generation Yoshibei: Name: Yoshimichi (eldest son of the 8th generation Yoshibei) (1840-November 1908)
*The family moved from Kamitachiuri, Ogawacho (currently in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City) to Kamaza-dori Ebisugawa (currently in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City), where the Okumura family currently resides.
●In 1882, he received the praise of Isshisai of the Mushakoji Sen school for the unfinished "Tenbin Measuring," one of the "Triplets by the Three Sen Schools," and completed it 60 years after he had first begun work on it.
○10th Generation Yoshijiro (eldest son of the 9th Generation Yoshibei) (May 1869 - September 1944)
○The 11th generation Yoshibei (the eldest son of the 10th generation Yoshijiro) (1901-)
The current head: 12th head, Yoshibei Okumura (son of the 11th head, Yoshibei)
※Current generation...