Sen Genshitsu, a master of Japanese tea ceremony who devoted his life to traveling around the world to pursue world peace through the art, died Thursday, the tea ceremony school he formerly headed said. He was 102.Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the art's top three schools in Japan, visited more than 60 countries to convey his philosophy of "peacefulness through a bowl of tea." In his youth, he was trained to be a kamikaze pilot during World War II but never flew on a suicide attack mission following Japan's defeat.He was born in 1923 into the family of Urasenke, based …READ FULL ARTICLE
