SEN No Rikyū

SEN No Rikyū (in Japanese 千利休), also known under the name of Sōeki (province of the Kansai, 1522 - id. 1591), Master of the Japanese of the style wabi (侘び).

Fore-mentioned Yoshirō in its childhood, he becomes a disciple of the temple Daitoku-ji, specialist in the Chanoyu , the Japanese ceremony of the. Quickly, it is one of the outstanding figures of the style wabi (“simple and healthy”). At the 58 years age, it enters to the service of the taikō (first adviser of the emperor) Nobunaga Oda as Master of the. It makes create the style of Poterie Raku by Chōjiro. It serves then its successor, Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

In 1591, Hideyoshi orders in Rikyū to commit suicide. The reasons remain mysterious. Three principal assumptions circulated: it would have shown greed in the trade of the ustensils of the; he would have been denounced like plotter with the taikō ; he would have made install a statue with his effigy at the entry of the Daitoku-ji temple.

Yasushi Inoue does of it one of the main characters of Romance sound the Master of the (1991): the hero, the Honkakubō monk, disciple of Rikyū, tries there to bore the secrecies of the suicide his Master.

Catalog of films

of Kumai Kei, SEN No Rikyū (Death of a Master of The) , with Mifune Toshirō, 1989.
of Teshigahara Hiroshi, Rikyū , 1989.

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