[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools, tea scoop] White bamboo, inscribed "Yado no Ume", by Arima Yoritsune

● Plum blossoms at the inn… I wonder if the plum blossoms at my inn are still standing. You came here unexpectedly.
(Maybe you saw the tall plum tree branches in our garden. I didn't expect you to come.)
There is a tea caddy that bears the inscription based on this poem; it is also called "Goto" because it was owned by Goto Sanzaemon, and the lord Enshu named it after a poem by Taira no Kanemori in the "Shuishuu" collection.

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Material: White bamboo
Author: Arima Yoritsune
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[Arima Yorisoko (name: Dairyukku)] 7th abbot of the Rinzai sect of the Shokokuji school
Chairman of the Kyoto Buddhist Association, Director of the Japan Foundation
Descendant of the Arima family (Akamatsu lineage), lords of Kurume
(Born in Tokyo into an aristocratic family, he became a schoolmate of the Emperor.)
Born in Tokyo in 1943 as the second son of Baron Masayoshi Arima, a cousin of Arima Yorinari, the head of the Arima family.
In 1941, at the age of 8, he was ordained at Gakurinji Temple in Hita City, Oita Prefecture.
In 1955, at the age of 22, he entered the Rinzai sect of Buddhism at the Sokokuji temple in Kyoto and studied under Master Otsu Tatsudo.
1968: Head priest of Daikomyo-ji Temple, a subtemple of Shokoku-ji Temple
1971 Dean of Shokokuji School of Education
In 1984, he became the Secretary General of the Shokokuji Jotenkaku Museum of Art upon its establishment.
In 1988, he became the chairman of the Kyoto Buddhist Association.
In 1995, he became the seventh head priest of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism at Shokoku-ji Temple (the 132nd head priest at Shokoku-ji Temple).
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Box: Wooden box