Furuta Oribe

In this Japanese name, the family name is Furuta.
Furuta Oribe
Nickname(s) Oribe, Sasuke
Born 1544
Motosu, Mino Province
Died July 4, 1615(1615-07-04)
Fushimi, Yamashiro Province
Buried at Daitoku-ji and Kōshō-ji, Kyoto
Stone garden of Nanshū-ji in Sakai, Osaka prefecture, where Furuta Oribe was involved in its design

Furuta Oribe (古田 織部, 1544 – July 6, 1615), whose birth name was Furuta Shigenari (古田 重然), was a daimyō and celebrated master of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Biography

He was originally a retainer of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

His teacher in the tea ceremony was Sen no Rikyū. He became the foremost tea master in the land after Rikyū's death, and taught this art to the shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada. Among his other particularly famous tea ceremony students were Kobori Enshū and Honami Kōetsu.

The kind of tea ceremony that he established is known as Oribe-ryū (see Schools of Japanese tea ceremony), and the style of ceramics that are attributed to his artistic influence are known as Oribe ware. He also designed a style of stone lantern for the roji tea garden, known as Oribe-dōrō.[1]

During the year 1600, Oribe received a 10,000-koku income. During the Osaka Campaign of 1615, Oribe was forced to plot in Kyoto against the Tokugawa and the Emperor, on the behalf of the defenders of Osaka. After this event, Oribe was ordered to commit suicide (seppuku), along with his son.

In media

Hyouge Mono (Japanese: へうげもの Hepburn: Hyōge Mono, lit. "Jocular Fellow") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada. It was adapted into an anime series in 2011, and is a fictional depiction of Oribe's life.

References

  1. ↑ Kōdansha Encyclopedia of Japan, entry for Furuta Oribe

Further reading

Media related to Furuta Oribe at Wikimedia Commons


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