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Making Shoji
Odate Toshio, Olender Laure (photographer)
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Historical Biographies
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| Name: | Furuta Oribe (1544-1615) | | URL | | | Country | JAPAN | | Added to JGarden | 11/11/2001 | | Last Updated | 11/11/2001 | | Description | Oribe was one of the early tea masters. He was important in transforming conventional etiquette into something unique and innovative. He contributed a great deal to the development of the tea-house (chashitsu) and tea garden (chatei or roji) including the use of stone lanterns and water basins. He committed ritual suicide at the orders of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu on June 11, 1615. |
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