Topic
history
4 pieces.
01 
Eisai and the Arrival of Tea in Japan Tea reached Japan twice. The first time, in the ninth century, it faded. The monk Eisai brought it back in 1191, bound to Zen — and that time it held. 02 
Murata Jukō & Takeno Jōō: Tea Before Rikyū Rikyū did not invent wabi-cha; he finished it. Jukō turned tea toward plain native wares, Jōō brought the poet's ear, and much of the Jukō legend is late. 03 
Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591): The Man Who Defined Tea How a Sakai merchant's son codified wabi-cha — the grass-hut room, the crawl-through door, the raku bowl — and why Hideyoshi ordered his death. 04 
Warrior Tea: Hideyoshi, Rikyū & the Samurai Way of Chanoyu How Nobunaga and Hideyoshi made tea an instrument of rule, the gold tea room set against Rikyū's two-mat hut, and the forced seppuku of 1591.
Eisai and the Arrival of Tea in Japan Tea reached Japan twice. The first time, in the ninth century, it faded. The monk Eisai brought it back in 1191, bound to Zen — and that time it held. 02 Murata Jukō & Takeno Jōō: Tea Before Rikyū Rikyū did not invent wabi-cha; he finished it. Jukō turned tea toward plain native wares, Jōō brought the poet's ear, and much of the Jukō legend is late. 03 Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591): The Man Who Defined Tea How a Sakai merchant's son codified wabi-cha — the grass-hut room, the crawl-through door, the raku bowl — and why Hideyoshi ordered his death. 04 Warrior Tea: Hideyoshi, Rikyū & the Samurai Way of Chanoyu How Nobunaga and Hideyoshi made tea an instrument of rule, the gold tea room set against Rikyū's two-mat hut, and the forced seppuku of 1591.