A long long time ago, Jukou Murata(村田珠光) made a tea ceremony. However, it wasn't complete as people had tea time in Japan. Jukou did tea time people had with "Zen(禅)" together. This started "Wabi-Cha(侘び茶)"
He lived 1422-1502, and he made wabi-cha. After he died, Takeno Jouou(武野紹鷗) inherited wabi-cha. Finally Jouou completed wabi-cha. This is like a modern tea ceremony.
Almost all Japanese people know Sen no Rikyu (千利休).He is very famous in Japan as a tea ceremony performer, but Jouou taught tea ceremony to Rikyu and other famous people.
Rikyu went became a famous te ceremony in Japan. When Bushi went to regions (ikusa), they did a tea ceremony with local Lords. In the tea room, performers(and who in the tea room) have to leave "Buki".
Now, We know tea ceremony, especially "Sansenke(三千家)" for example, Omotesenke(表千家), Urasenke(裏千家), Mushakojisenke(武者小路千家). Iemoto is a herditary system, and Senno Rikyu's family has three branches from his grandsons.
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