"The Tao is not the same, it is not conspiratorial." Also under Oda Nobunaga's door, Toyotomi Hideyoshi learned tea ceremony from Senritsu, but after the unification of Japan, he killed his former master on trumped-up charges of "trespassing".
One is the master of the Japanese tea ceremony, a generation of Japanese warlords in the Warring States period, and the two masters and apprentices who also respect the Japanese tea ceremony are the same as the water and fire, and the root cause is the dispute between the position of the tea ceremony and tea art, and there is also the trade-off between the old and new forces.
Jian Zhen Dongdu, sent to Japan the "tea culture" in the Tang Dynasty culture, initially tea was only used as a medicinal introduction to medicine, and then tea culture rose among the martial artists of the upper class of Japanese society, and a Japanese Zen master named Murata Zhuguang integrated the Chinese tea sets circulated to Japan in the Tang Dynasty with the Japanese tea sets used in Japan, combining the Zen mood with the tea ceremony to form "Kusanagi Tea".
Later, his disciple Takeno Shou inherited the mantle and creatively put forward the concept of "tea Zen one taste" to achieve the nationalization of the tea ceremony.
Senritsu is deeply impressed by Takeno Shoo's true tradition Yusan tea soup, made tea under Oda Nobunaga's door, and accidentally took Oda Nobunaga's successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi as an apprentice, and the two met for a while and hated each other and formed a friendship, but the tea concept was still far apart in the end.
Born in a merchant family, Senritsu learned tea ceremony from Takeno Shou at the age of 18, which can be described as standing on the shoulders of giants to complete the tea ceremony innovation. Qianlixiu's tea ceremony emphasizes the word "pure", "The Dharma is in the tea soup", and the tea ceremony is the tea ceremony, which should not be mixed with materialistic desires.
Qianlixiu advocates "cao'an tea", that is, making fire, boiling water, ordering tea, drinking tea, and nothing more, there is no red tape, everything is from the simple side to the tea ceremony. If you excessively pursue the comfort of the tea house where you drink tea, the beauty of the tea set used to drink tea, overemphasize the action posture of ordering tea, and pay attention to the complexity of research skills, you will lose the meaning and charm of the tea ceremony itself.
"Si is the Burrow, but Wu Dexin." Qianlixiu's tea room area is not large, the tea bowl used for drinking tea is also made of simple and low-key Goryeo tea bowl, for the tea drinking environment, Qianlixiu more pursuit is simple and simple and quiet and open, with the wind of the mountains, in which leisurely and leisurely, so pay more attention to the experience of the tea ceremony.
Qian Lixiu believes that drinking tea is an activity that makes the mood comfortable and nervous relaxed, so the cumbersome process is simplified as much as possible to achieve true cultivation.
Qianlixiu held a tea party, the purpose is purely so that the people who participate in the tea party can get rid of the worldly troubles, truly achieve inner purity, the so-called "knot in the human environment, and no car and horse noise", this is the quiet tea drinking atmosphere that Qianlixiu pursues, he borrows tea to show the world is the desire and pursuit of spiritual freedom.
The Senritsu-style tea ceremony breaks the boundaries of the inherent hierarchy and achieves true freedom and equality for all, so that by following nature, putting aside all distractions, and not considering the gains and losses of interests, one has a Pure and Dirty Buddha's Mind.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi is an absolute hero, from starting from scratch to sitting on the power of all sentient beings, although the original intention of learning the tea ceremony is pure, but after the polishing of the sword and light sword shadow, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is more like a poor man who got rich overnight, the lack of spiritual life makes him eager to announce his glory to the world, if the tea ceremony can be made into a grand ruler sacrifice ceremony, then Toyotomi Hideyoshi will not hesitate to make a big fuss.
Therefore, for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the tea ceremony is more like a symbol of class status, he believes that the tea ceremony is not something that everyone can do, it must be fine and luxurious to do, and to do it in accordance with a set of inherent rules, emphasizing absolute obedience and emphasizing the magnificence of details, so as to reflect the supreme power.
After becoming apparent, Toyotomi Hideyoshi held an imperial tea party in the imperial palace, seemingly to thank the emperor, but in fact to declare his eminent status, show the luxurious tea sets he had collected, and show his golden mountains and silver mountains. At the Kitano Tea Party, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was extremely luxurious, and the tea sets used were all made of gold, and the tea room was no exception, creating a supreme glory of money.
The tea ceremony is the icing on the cake for Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The tea ceremony he advocates does not seek inner peace and tranquility, on the contrary, his great luxury chases a kind of self-affirmation and self-satisfaction, affirming his great achievements, satisfied with his inexhaustible wealth, and highlighting the naked ambition of advocating power and pursuing fame and profit.
For the "experiential school" Senritsu and the "academic" Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the tea ceremony ideas of the two are indisputably incompatible, the "experiential school" emphasizes inaction, and the "academic school" advocates "being promising", and the essential opposition makes Senritsu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi unable to identify with each other whether they look at the tea ceremony politically or understand politics from the tea ceremony, and there is the opposition of the spiritual world and the opposition of class forces in the essence of the opposition.
The opposition of the spiritual world. As the name suggests, Senritsu's "Kusanagi Tea" is a symbol of a popular world of equality, while Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Golden Tea" demonstrates the supremacy of differentiation. Senritsu wants all beings to be equal, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants solipsism, and the two are irreconcilable contradictions.
Although Senritsu did not criticize Toyotomi Hideyoshi's so-called spirit of the tea ceremony, his heartfelt disgust made him more determined that his choice would not be coerced and shaken by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's power.
Moreover, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a man of fame and profit, and when his opponent became the master of the Japanese tea ceremony and his position was unshakable, he was always afraid of being overwhelmed by such momentum, so he had to do whatever it took to remove obstacles and do whatever it took.
The antagonism of class forces. Senritsu represents a nascent class that aspires to freedom and equality independent of the worldly dust, while Toyotomi Hideyoshi represents the old feudal forces that do their best to maintain their orthodox status.
With the passage of time, the progress of mankind, the new class gained more recognition, the scope gradually expanded, so the tea ceremony spirit advocated by Qianlixiu was recognized and pursued by more people, in an already unequal feudal society, the desire for equality of sentient beings was bound to cause panic among the old feudal forces, so the opposition between the new class and the feudal ruling class was not accidental.
After the Yingren Rebellion, the emergence of new cities nourished a free and independent personality. Senritsu was born in Sakai City, and was rich in lacquerware and weapons, attracting many merchants to come and buy and sell.
Where there are merchants, there is commodity circulation, commodity circulation in exchange for a steady stream of economic flow, economic development is the key to urban progress, merchants gathered, all forces strive to win the political initiative, so that Sakai City gradually developed into a highly autonomous independent city.
Growing up in such a highly free and equal city, Qianlixiu has been indisputable since childhood, is more willing to pursue spiritual freedom, and loves a simple and simple life, which also creates conditions for the formation of a tea ceremony spirit advocating freedom and equality in the later period.
In the fly camp, only by making yourself strong can you stomp others under your feet. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was Oda Nobunaga's chosen successor, who had lived at the bottom since childhood and knew that only through his own efforts could he get what he wanted.
With the rapid development of Japan's commodity economy, the rulers with power and position were swollen and empty in their hearts, and they needed to show their sense of existence through a lot of profligacy.
Often the richer the material, the more spiritually impoverished they are, and they can only hide their inner emptiness through a luxurious lifestyle, afraid that others will not know that they are in a high position, and try to improve their prestige by squandering.
For Senritsu, who has a simple background in life, the tea ceremony is the whole of life, and for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who has been living in the dark and forced for many years, the tea ceremony is a derivative of power. It is precisely because of the two very different life backgrounds that the two are opposed to each other's tea ceremony spirit.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had been promoted to a rich position, became more and more arrogant and could not listen to the words of the ear, only Chiritsu alone dared to advise, and over time the gap formed made Toyotomi Hideyoshi endure Senritsu to the limit, and the wooden statue of Daitoku-ji Became the last straw that crushed the camel, and also broke through the final bottom line of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tolerance of Senritsu, saying, "The only thing that can make me bow my head is beautiful things." "Let Senrihu become an ancient man forever."
Senritsu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are not only opposing the spirit of the tea ceremony, but also political positions. Senritsu's pursuit of freedom and equality became a thorn in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's eye, and in the end he was unable to escape a false charge of "trespassing" in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's heinous power case, which was enough to make Toyotomi Hideyoshi and other old feudal forces put the new social strata represented by Senritsu to death.
One is a new class that pursues freedom and equality, and the other is an old force that wants to consolidate feudal rule, and confrontation and conflict become inevitable.
Just as Senritsu's "Kusanagi Tea" looks at Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Golden Tea" as disdain and contempt for money as dung, and thinks that it is unnecessary and contrary to the rich spiritual world; Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Golden Tea" looks at Senritsu's "Kusana Tea" is the shabbiness of the rich to see the poor, but in the face of its rise becoming the mainstream, it also carries a bit of helplessness and uneasiness that has to look up to the eyes.
The death of Senritsu does not mean the demise of "Kusanagi Tea", nor is it the "Golden Tea" that represents Toyotomi Hideyoshi, on the contrary, it is precisely because of the collision of two distinct Japanese tea ceremony ideas that a unique spiritual world has been created in the tea ceremony, which has become the true pride of the Yamato nation and an immortal cultural treasure of Japan.
The dispute between Senritsu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi over japanese tea art seems to be a chase between old and new forces, but it is actually a collision of two extreme ideas, although one side eventually loses the battle to become history, but it is the collision of ideas that allows the essence of the Japanese tea ceremony to be carried forward.
Text/Sheng Hong