Iemoto (家元, lit. ' family foundation ' ) is a Japanese term used to refer to the founder or current Grand Master of a certain school of traditional Japanese art . It is used synonymously with the term sōke ( 宗家 ) when it refers to the family or house that the iemoto is head of and represents.

iemoto （家元，点燃。 “家庭基金会”）是一个日本术语，用于指代某些传统日本艺术学校的创始人或现任大师。 当它指的是Iemoto是负责人和代表的家庭或房屋时，它是与Sōke （宗家）一词同义的。

2021年7月5日 · As scholar Nishiyama Matsunosuke has explored, familiarity with iemoto and their institutional powers, which comprise an “iemoto system,” sheds light on continuities across traditional arts. Though translated as “family,” ie also means “lineage and household,” and usage, especially before World War II, “evokes the image of an ...

2015年9月4日 · Iemoto, literally "family foundation", is the leader of a Japanese tradition or art. It is usually translated into English as Grand Master. The Iemoto system is used to preserve traditions such as tea ceremony , arts such as shodo calligraphy , performance arts such as Noh and traditional music.

2024年10月25日 · In the first stage, the iemoto projected the authority to define and certify authentic tea onto single master figures - the iemoto. Grounding legitimacy in genealogical connections to Rikyu, the iemoto then transformed a variety of innovative tea practices into a body of formalized knowledge that could be inherited and controlled.

2016年3月26日 · 日本人通常把iemoto一词用两个汉字来写：‘家’(在中日两种语言中都是家庭或家族的意思)与‘元’(原来或根的意思)。 ‘家族之根’的综合效果指出了这个既重要又独特的次级团体的本质。

2012年11月2日 · 「家元（いえもと，iemoto）」指的是一個流派的主導者，也就是掌門人的地位。 以 家元 為中心率領整個流派的制度，就稱「 家元制度 」。 流派當中「 家元制度 」的現狀不一，有幾個比較共通的概念（以下譯自wikipedia）：

Iemoto is a term used to refer to the family line which succeeds a school traditional Japanese art.

This “house head” (iemoto) system also spread to flower arrangement and to other arts and became a distinguishing feature of the Edo period. One result of this segmentation into tradition-conscious schools was that it inhibited further development of these artistic forms.

2014年11月30日 · Francis Hsu identifies four chief defining characteristics of the iemoto system: the master-disciple relationship, an interlinking hierarchy, the fictional family system, and the supreme authority of the head of the school, i.e. he who holds the position of iemoto.