Amway Film About the Japanese Tea Ceremony – Rishio (1989)

Recommend a historical film about the Japanese tea ceremony, a story about Rishio and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and through a small history, a glimpse of Japan at that time.

The film "Li Xiu" is one of the late productions of Hiroshi Kawahara, which was produced in 1989, the film color is dark and gloomy, not like the bright and beautiful picture in the big river drama in recent years, it is a solemn narrative in the heavy tone, there are few finger tea, there are few blade cold light, and the dull tile in the black and brown dull.

Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi could do sekibai, he was already a student who studied tea ceremony with Senritsu. Senritsu once explained the tea ceremony in a poem:

First bring the water to a boil,

Add tea leaves,

Then drink tea in the appropriate way,

That's all you need to know.

Other than that, tea has nothing.

Hideyoshi thought that making tea was done according to the master's procedures, so he made a good cup of tea. But in addition to his pride, after tasting the cup made by Li Xiu, he could understand with his own poor mouth that there was a world of difference.

As the regent of the authorities, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he admired and yearned for the tea ceremony more than his predecessors and successors. For Nobunaga and Ieyasu, tea was part of their lives since they were young, but for Hideyoshi, the meaning was very different. Hideyoshi can now stand above everyone, but he can't erase his humble origins. After he came to power, he ordered him to change into a golden silk brocade, but it was obviously more suitable for his mother in coarse cloth clothes, and he wanted her mother to tell everyone later that she had served the emperor.

Hideyoshi came from an extremely humble background, a farmer of Owari, a ronin, and a "monkey" of the lord Nobunaga. Nobunaga's courtiers despised Hideyoshi, especially as he sat in a higher position than himself. His yearning for this kind of elegance is that the more he is not good at it, the more he feels that it is mysterious and noble.

After he obtained the supreme power, he used his iron fist to prove his strength, while at the same time enshrined the tea ceremony as the highest status. This is also an important reason why Hideyoshi was the regent of "Sekibai" to link tea culture with politics.

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