

The anime and manga, Hyouge Mono, is set in the Sengoku era and follows tea
related items. I can see that in general the events of the era seem to be more
or less accurate, and all the wacky outfits probably aren't accurate (or are
they?), but I'm wondering about the tea related aspect of the series.

Did the warlords of the time (especially Oda Nobunaga) have tea masters and
treasure master crafted tea-ware in any way like they're portrayed in Hyouge
Mono? Are any of the crafted items, at least the ones with proper names, real
items from the period?


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Is Hyouge Mono historically accurate?


All characters on the show are based on historical figures. Furuta Sasuke is
in fact Furuta Oribe but he will only change his name later in life. Same goes
for Sen no Soeki who will become famous under the name of Sen no Rikyu.


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Tea bowls and items are real names. There are records of those. As you can see
in Hyouge mono, there was an tea economy rose by tea masters and samurai
lords.

Lord Hisahide Matsunaga who blew up with hiragumo kettle in manga and anime,
in fact blew up with hiragumo in the top of the castle. Nobunaga really wanted
it, too. There isn't a record of that Oribe took the broken lid of the kettle
though. So the events appear in the manga or anime are accurate but some
scenes Oribe with other samurai lords (especially enemy ones) are more
fictional. Clothes are very exaggerated but Nobunaga really liked western
clothes (from Portugal). In my opinion the author does it deliberately because
exaggeration is more suited to Oribe's aesthetic sense. Later his name remains
in style of tea bowls as Oribe ware.


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