a young man to train as an apprentice under a local doctor named . Due to the untimely death of , however, returned home in 1645, and thereafter, with his father 's support, trained as a expert, similarly to his older brother, , the heir to the family. Around the year 1646, when was roughly 68 years old, he gave up his headship of the family to , and moved into quarters which had been built at the rear of the house, including a tiny tea hut known as the . 's retirement quarters became 's home base, with eventually becoming heir to the property. found employment for his eldest son, , with the clan of the domain, but soon quit his position with the , leading to disinheriting 's second son, , had in contrast been adopted by the family in Kyoto, known for specialising in lacquerware under their business name of . During this period, went by the name . In his later life, however, returned to the family, establishing a tea room named "" at his residence on street, and retrained as a expert. With this, the direct descendants of branched into the three lines of both the family and schools of tea ceremony known as the today. Before the Meiji Restoration (1868), the heads of the three families served as magistrates under various , receiving a yearly stipend from them as payment for their respective services. , fourth son of the family and leader of the branch that would eventually be known as the , served the clan of . In generations following this, the head of the family also served as a magistrate for the clan of the domain (present day Prefecture), as well as serving as caretaker to the clan's Kyoto residence. The head of the eleventh generation of the family, (1810–77), born as the fifth son of a minor named of the domain, married into the family, whilst also serving the branch of the Tokugawa family. However, following the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the lost their positions, and the hereditary stipends which the three families had been receiving came to an end. It was after this, and the loss of their positions serving the , that the families established their system. The entire historical estate, located in the ward of Kyoto, is referred to by the name of its representative