Furuta Oribe

Abstract

The popularization of tea practice (chanoyu) among the daimyo in the second half of the sixteenth century largely resulted from the exploitation of the evolving tea culture for political purposes by the hegemon, Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga monopolized the art of tea by cultivating an honor system of conferring tea licenses to selected warlords. The Takeda City version corrects the period of Oribe’s engagement with tea reform from Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s era, around 1591, to Tokugawa Hidetada’s, around 1605. This version makes sense in the context of the historical background. During the 1590s, Hideyoshi had occupied himself with his ambitious yet unsuccessful Korean invasions. It is unlikely that he was concerned with the renovation of tea styles. Yaburebukuro had long been in the Todo collection—Todo Takatora’s main family line—before the Gotoh Museum acquired it in the 1920s. It is still a mystery how Takatora obtained it.

Matched Nanban terms

• people Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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