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...

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

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...

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...

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")...

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...

especially tea masters Sen no Rikyū and Ii Naosuke. The term can be traced back to the 16th century to an expression by tea master Sen no Rikyū: "one chance in...