Sen no Rikyu
Senritsu, the progenitor of the Japanese tea ceremony, threatened to die if I don't bow my head, he said, "Only beautiful things can make me bow my head."
In 1585, Hideyoshi built a golden tea room, created a golden tea set, and then invited the emperor to taste tea, and personally served tea for it, as Hideyoshi was crowned as Lord Sekibai, Li Xiu, who made tea for the emperor, was also famous all over the world, Hideyoshi liked luxury, extravagant scenes and supreme power, absolute control, but What Ritsuki pursued was the real tea before nobility.
The tea room is the world of Li Xiu, he drives the world with tea, there are many big celebrities at that time are his disciples, his tea room has become a place for nobles and samurai to learn tea ceremony self-cultivation, on the one hand, Hideyoshi is very appreciative of Li Xiu's tea art and achievements, on the other hand, more and more dissatisfied with its higher appeal than himself.
One day Hideyoshi summons Ritsuru and asks him to arrange flowers in front of the tea ceremony in public, but Hideyoshi deliberately has a problem.
A flat iron plate filled with water and a plum blossom were prepared for Li Xiu, only to see Li Xiu calmly pick up the plum blossom, gently pluck the flower, and scatter it on the water at will, and then recline the stump with a few flower buds on the iron plate, facing a moving scene of "falling flowers and flowing water", Hideyoshi, who was both lost and surprised, also had to say: You can easily turn everything into beauty, in this world, no second person can compare with you.
In 1591, Ritsu donated a yamamon Kinho-ge to Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto, and in order to thank Ritsugu for his offering, Daitoku-ji Set up a wooden statue of Ritsuki on the second floor of the Kinmaokaku-ji, so Hideyoshi seized the opportunity to send troops to Daitoku-ji Temple to demolish and burn the wooden statue of Ritsuki.
Everyone can see that the catastrophe of Lixiu is coming, everyone advises Lixiu to apologize, and Hideyoshi also releases words that "as long as you apologize and surrender, you can be forgiven", but Lixiu has his pride, only beautiful things can make me bow my head, so Lixiu was given by Hideyoshi to "cut my abdomen to commit suicide".
On April 21, 1591, the tea court was as calm as ever, and a trace of aroma wafted from the tea room, and Li Xiu gave each guest a tea vessel after serving tea one by one, and then broke his own tea bowl, and after the solemn and tragic deathbed tea ceremony, the guests tearfully said goodbye and left.
The greatest tea man in Japanese history, changing into a white and immaculate robe, quietly bid farewell to the tea ceremony he loved, and stabbed a short sword shining with cold light to himself with the heart of a fearless Zen, and the father of a generation of tea ceremony aesthetics fell.
Under the influence of Rishiu, his family has been passed down for more than ten generations, and there are famous tea ceremony masters in all generations, and the aesthetics of the Japanese tea ceremony have deeply influenced the world to this day.
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