Sen no Rikyū (Japanese: 千利休, 1522 – April 21, 1591), also known simply as Rikyū, was a Japanese Buddhist monk and tea master considered the most important...

style Rikyū advocated was less favored for these political gatherings than the more lavish mainstream style. After Nobunaga's death, Sen no Rikyū entered...

friends. Rikyū's austere wabicha style was replaced, for these political purposes, by a more lavish style. After Nobunaga's death, Sen no Rikyū entered...

as opposed to focusing just on the ceremonial aspect. In the 1500s, Sen no Rikyū revolutionized Japanese tea culture, essentially perfecting what is now...

Rikyū may refer to: Sen no Rikyū, the 16th century Japanese master of the tea ceremony Rikyu (film), the 1989 Hiroshi Teshigahara film about the later...

Yamazaki, Kyoto. Tai-an was designed by the great tea master Sen no Rikyū in 1582. Sen no Rikyū was named the tea master of Toyotomi Hideyoshi that same year...

by Sen no Rikyū, the 16th century tea master from whom they are directly descended. They are known collectively as the san-Senke (三千家, "three Sen houses/families")...

long relationship with tea master Sen no Rikyū, which eventually soured leading to Hideyoshi ordering Sen no Rikyū to commit suicide. The exact reason...

Death of a Tea Master (Japanese: 千利休 本覺坊遺文, Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubô ibun also known as Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo's Student Writings) is a 1989 Japanese...

of the three lines of the Sen family descending from Sen no Rikyū, which together are known as the san-Senke or the "three Sen houses/families" (三千家). The...