Takeno Jō'ō
was a master of the Japanese tea ceremony, tea ceremony and a well-known merchant during the Sengoku period of the 16th century in Japan. His name has come down in Japanese cultural history because he followed Murata Jukō as an early proponent of wabi-cha, and was chanoyu teacher to Sen no Rikyū. It is believed that the family descended from the Takeda clan who were guardians of Wakasa Province. His father, Nobuhisa, changed the family name to Takeno, and after roaming the country, settled in Sakai, Osaka, Sakai, where he built up a thriving business dealing in leather goods used by warriors. Nobuhisa married the daughter of a priest of Kōfukuji temple in Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture), Jō'ō's mother. While carrying on the family business in Sakai, Jō'ō, whose common name was Shingorō (新五郎), did religious duty as an attendant at the Hongan-ji temple in the Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Yamashina, Yamashiro Province (nowadays Kyoto). In 1532, he took the t ...
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