Abstract
Sen Sōeki (1522–1591), widely known by his title Rikyū, is an outstanding figure in the history of the art of tea. Himself a tea-man of an unsurpassed caliber, the founder of the school of tea ceremony called Sen School, he is to be regarded practically as the founder of the tea ceremony as we understand it today, namely the ‘Way of tea’, the central idea of which is wabi. The way of tea has since his time not only dominated the entire history of the tea culture, but, having infiltrated into the very tissue of Japanese culture in general, it has exercised a remarkable influence upon the formation of some of the most important characteristics of the ethico-aesthetic sensibility of the Japanese and the norms of their behavior even at the level of daily life.
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