1544-1615. A daimyo in the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, and founder of the Oribe school of the tea ceremony. He became famous as a tea master after the death of Sen Rikyū, and became the tea ceremony instructor for the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada. He changed the tea ceremony from a style suited to merchants to one adapted to the samurai. He developed the Oribe gonomi (Oribe taste) with novel designs of pottery, stone lanterns, and so on.
Japanese Garden Dictionary: A Glossary for Japanese Gardens and Their History
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