Hyougemono

During Japan’s Sengoku era, as warlords continually seize power from one another, Furuta Sasuke serves as a vassal to Oda Nobunaga. His ambitions are shaped by both a deepening devotion to tea and a desire for wealth and status. Nobunaga’s genius expands Sasuke’s view of the world, while the tea master Senno Sōeki offers him spiritual insight. As Sasuke pursues greater power and the arts, he follows the path of the “Hyouge Mono”—a comical fellow—confronting the choice between living for political ambition and for artistic taste.