1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:27,366 ~ SEN NO RIKYU - HONKAKUBO IBUN ~ (The Death Of A Tea Master) 4 00:00:29,367 --> 00:00:34,367 Executive Producer TAKAOKE Sueaki 5 00:00:35,368 --> 00:00:39,568 Producer YAMAGUSHI Kazunobu 6 00:00:40,869 --> 00:00:44,569 From the novel. "Honkakubo Ibun" Adapted by by INOUE Yasushi YORITA Yoshikata 7 00:00:45,870 --> 00:00:50,070 Cinematography TOCHIZAWA Masao Lighting IWAKI Yasuo Production Design KIMURA Takeo 8 00:00:51,071 --> 00:00:55,171 Original Music by MATSUMURA Teizou Sound recording KUBOTA Yukio Film Editing INOUE Osamu 9 00:00:56,372 --> 00:01:00,472 Assistant Director HARA Kazuo Ikebana (Flower Arranging) KAWSE Toshiro Assistant Producer OBA Masahiro 10 00:01:01,673 --> 00:01:05,873 Supervising Consultants INOUE Yasushi KOMATSU Shigemi KUMAKURA... TODA Muneyasu Title Design FURUZAWA Ichirou 11 00:01:07,074 --> 00:01:11,074 Tea Ceremony Consultants Omote Sen-ke Ura Sen-ke Mushanokouji Sen-ke 12 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:15,375 CAST 13 00:01:17,276 --> 00:01:20,376 Honkakubo - OKUDA Eiji 14 00:01:22,577 --> 00:01:25,977 ODA Urakusai - MANIYA Kinnosuke 15 00:01:27,878 --> 00:01:31,278 FURUTA Oribe - KATO Tsuyoshi 16 00:01:32,579 --> 00:01:36,079 Taiko Hideyoshi - ASHIDA Nobusuke Kokei - TONO Eijiro Toyobo - NAITO Taketoshi 17 00:01:37,180 --> 00:01:40,580 SOJI Yamanoue - KAMIJO Tsuneshiko Sen-no Sotan - KAWANO Taro Daitokuya - MUTA Teizo 18 00:01:42,581 --> 00:01:46,081 Sen-no Rikyu - MIFUNE Toshiro 19 00:01:48,582 --> 00:01:53,682 Director - KUMAI Kei 20 00:02:38,507 --> 00:02:40,470 Master! 21 00:02:51,119 --> 00:02:53,147 Go back! 22 00:02:56,225 --> 00:02:58,754 This path is not for you. 23 00:02:59,995 --> 00:03:01,291 Then... 24 00:03:02,164 --> 00:03:05,490 this is the path... to the next world, isn't it? 25 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:12,238 Master! 26 00:03:19,681 --> 00:03:20,875 Master! 27 00:03:27,256 --> 00:03:28,154 Master! 28 00:03:37,065 --> 00:03:38,089 Master! 29 00:06:15,590 --> 00:06:19,090 "Soeki" (Sen no Rikyu) 30 00:07:42,145 --> 00:07:44,373 Good morning. 31 00:07:46,415 --> 00:07:49,508 I saw you in a fearful dream. 32 00:07:52,722 --> 00:07:55,215 Do you not feel very alone? 33 00:07:58,027 --> 00:07:59,525 Master... 34 00:08:02,431 --> 00:08:05,456 that road, cold, dark and desolate... 35 00:08:05,868 --> 00:08:11,066 .. did it truly lead you to the next world? 36 00:08:13,676 --> 00:08:17,643 To us... who follow the path of Tea... 37 00:08:18,181 --> 00:08:23,141 it's also our path in this world... the one we must follow. 38 00:08:25,555 --> 00:08:27,547 Isn't this true? 39 00:09:01,590 --> 00:09:05,285 On that day, I heard that in Kennin Temple in Kyoto... 40 00:09:05,527 --> 00:09:11,263 the new tearoom for Urakusai-sama's hermitage, had just been finished. 41 00:09:12,034 --> 00:09:18,637 At the time I was invited there, the rich merchant, Daitoku, was also there. 42 00:09:18,908 --> 00:09:24,371 He was know to sell high quality utensils for the Tea ceremony. 43 00:09:47,336 --> 00:09:50,696 It was my first encounter with Lord Uraku. 44 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:53,604 I've only seen him from a distance, a couple of times. 45 00:09:54,009 --> 00:10:00,615 He left me with the impression of a man, wise but rather severe. 46 00:10:01,417 --> 00:10:04,148 Wise, indeed. 47 00:10:04,387 --> 00:10:08,915 It was 27 years ago. I suspect he may have mellowed... 48 00:10:08,924 --> 00:10:11,358 Not... still severe. 49 00:10:13,195 --> 00:10:16,460 After all, he is the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga... 50 00:10:16,966 --> 00:10:20,163 and thus a senior member of Taiko's family. 51 00:10:42,725 --> 00:10:43,692 They're here. 52 00:10:46,795 --> 00:10:48,453 I am Honkakubo. 53 00:10:49,498 --> 00:10:50,963 Welcome. 54 00:10:51,866 --> 00:10:56,963 I believe you served Tea Master Rikyu, for a long time. 55 00:10:57,206 --> 00:10:57,900 Yes, I did. 56 00:14:07,831 --> 00:14:13,736 This must be your favourite bowl... the highly praised "Ido" bowl? 57 00:14:33,957 --> 00:14:39,017 This tea spoon was made by Furuta Oribe. 58 00:14:41,131 --> 00:14:43,399 Really strong like he was. 59 00:14:43,833 --> 00:14:47,634 So much so... he sliced open his stomach in protest. 60 00:14:52,375 --> 00:14:54,675 Sen no Rikyu did the same... 61 00:14:54,878 --> 00:14:57,578 Yamanoue Soji, also. 62 00:14:58,949 --> 00:15:01,542 All three committed "seppuku". 63 00:15:03,486 --> 00:15:07,383 They were all Grand Masters of the Tea Ceremony. 64 00:15:08,358 --> 00:15:11,652 Is "seppuku" the only way to be a Master? 65 00:15:14,798 --> 00:15:19,196 Well, the evening is getting cold. 66 00:15:20,136 --> 00:15:24,470 Let's go back and drink some Dutch liquor. 67 00:15:33,083 --> 00:15:38,782 How long has it been since Rikyu was sentenced to die? 68 00:15:39,623 --> 00:15:41,952 About 27 years. 69 00:15:44,828 --> 00:15:46,959 So many years! 70 00:15:52,168 --> 00:15:57,032 And I go on living... quite shamelessly. 71 00:16:10,253 --> 00:16:13,945 Rikyu was ordered to kill himself. 72 00:16:15,592 --> 00:16:18,660 What was the real reason, in fact? 73 00:16:22,165 --> 00:16:23,359 Well... 74 00:16:24,867 --> 00:16:28,870 There are many rumours, mostly slanderous. 75 00:16:30,473 --> 00:16:35,576 Some say he was selling Tea Ceremony ustensils at exhorbitant prices. 76 00:16:35,778 --> 00:16:42,108 But the price reflects the true value of such objects as part of the Tea ceremony. 77 00:16:42,485 --> 00:16:45,648 Outside people could never appreciate that value. 78 00:16:46,622 --> 00:16:49,782 Isn't this how you made your fortune? 79 00:16:49,926 --> 00:16:52,060 It has been said. 80 00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:58,560 Everything Rikyu chose was perfectly attuned... 81 00:16:59,469 --> 00:17:01,760 to the most beautiful Tea Rooms. 82 00:17:03,006 --> 00:17:07,306 It's only normal that such objects were very expensive. 83 00:17:07,944 --> 00:17:12,540 There was certainly no fraud intended. 84 00:17:12,682 --> 00:17:17,012 Some say he was the victim of foul tongues. 85 00:17:17,253 --> 00:17:20,044 There were many one might suspect. 86 00:17:20,123 --> 00:17:24,015 Lord Ishida was surely one of them. 87 00:17:24,761 --> 00:17:28,963 But what did he allege? - That he was a Christian. 88 00:17:29,265 --> 00:17:33,264 Or perhaps that he was opposed to the plan to invade Korea. 89 00:17:34,604 --> 00:17:36,196 What do you think, Honkakubo? 90 00:17:38,374 --> 00:17:43,006 As the path of Tea teaches mutual respect and kindness... 91 00:17:43,646 --> 00:17:51,109 it was only natural to approve of Christian ideas. Naturally he deplored invasion by war. 92 00:17:52,021 --> 00:17:57,156 And the Daitoku incident... 93 00:17:58,928 --> 00:18:02,989 Ah, you mean Daitokuji temple... 94 00:18:04,067 --> 00:18:10,472 about the statue of Rikyo above the entrance looking down on all who entered... 95 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:16,904 Do you say, as some people implied, that he did so to boast of his power! 96 00:18:17,113 --> 00:18:20,913 Rikyu'd have never done such a thing! - I didn't say that! 97 00:18:25,188 --> 00:18:26,748 Enough... 98 00:18:28,224 --> 00:18:31,186 Lately, I'm losing my temper too easily. 99 00:18:32,829 --> 00:18:34,023 What's so funny? 100 00:18:34,997 --> 00:18:39,263 It's just your way of speaking... Abbot Toyobo used to say that. 101 00:18:39,469 --> 00:18:46,739 Wait! Abbot Toyobo of Shinnyo Temple... he passed away in KEICHO 3. 102 00:18:46,976 --> 00:18:51,175 That would be... almost twenty years ago. 103 00:18:53,150 --> 00:18:56,783 To see beauty of one or two flowers is know as 'wabi suki'. 104 00:18:57,754 --> 00:19:03,021 As show for a party, Hideyoshi ostentatiously planted thousands of cherry trees ... 105 00:19:03,694 --> 00:19:09,326 Deeply offended Toyobo-sama told Taiko. Then giving up everything he took his life. 106 00:19:09,933 --> 00:19:13,896 About Abbot Toyobo... please tell me more. 107 00:19:15,973 --> 00:19:20,610 At the time, I went to Shinnyodo temple to see the red maple leaves. 108 00:19:20,878 --> 00:19:23,403 As I walked through the gate... 109 00:19:53,076 --> 00:19:54,873 Honkakubo, is that you? 110 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,071 Hankakubo, isn't it? 111 00:20:02,553 --> 00:20:03,577 Toyobu-sama! 112 00:20:14,131 --> 00:20:17,466 Why become a hermit while so young? 113 00:20:19,169 --> 00:20:21,569 I know you mourn the loss of your Master... 114 00:20:21,672 --> 00:20:26,666 all the more reason you must go more deeply into the path of Tea. 115 00:20:29,846 --> 00:20:30,540 Yes. 116 00:20:30,981 --> 00:20:38,150 Now you have chosen this path, you must strive to become a Master. You know this, no? 117 00:20:41,692 --> 00:20:46,493 When Rikyu came here for the last time, you were with him, weren't you? 118 00:20:47,231 --> 00:20:48,323 Yes, I was, sir. 119 00:20:49,833 --> 00:20:54,998 That day he gave me a treasure. A tea bowl made by Chojiro. 120 00:20:55,939 --> 00:21:03,869 A delicate black bowl flared at the bottom. Come, let me offer you tea in it. 121 00:21:04,481 --> 00:21:05,175 Thank you, sir. 122 00:21:28,705 --> 00:21:33,165 I was six years after Rikyu's death, 123 00:21:34,445 --> 00:21:38,144 that the abbot of Daitokuji Temple, Kokei, passed away. 124 00:21:39,650 --> 00:21:42,778 It was the end of an era. 125 00:21:44,521 --> 00:21:48,685 He and Rikyu were the two pillars of that era. 126 00:21:49,059 --> 00:21:52,292 For warriors the Tea Ceremony had great meaning. 127 00:21:53,363 --> 00:21:56,298 But that era has gone for ever. 128 00:21:58,535 --> 00:22:01,699 The path of Tea in the era of warring states (Sengoku)... 129 00:22:03,006 --> 00:22:06,398 Drinking Tea before waging war... 130 00:22:07,711 --> 00:22:11,012 plunging headlong into battle... 131 00:22:11,982 --> 00:22:14,079 ready to die. 132 00:23:52,215 --> 00:23:57,175 Now I have drunk Rikyu's tea... nothing remains for me to do. 133 00:24:02,492 --> 00:24:04,426 I am glad to hear it. 134 00:24:20,610 --> 00:24:25,242 Tea prepared by Rikyu had a real power. 135 00:24:27,451 --> 00:24:32,288 Unlike that of some other Masters. 136 00:24:33,256 --> 00:24:37,215 He was a man of high caliber, an true master. 137 00:24:38,895 --> 00:24:41,796 He had devoted his entire life to it. 138 00:24:42,799 --> 00:24:45,360 Tea made him strong and straight. 139 00:24:46,736 --> 00:24:51,004 Thus Hideyoshi felt challenged by him. 140 00:24:53,343 --> 00:24:56,769 Though Taiko-sama ordered him to die... 141 00:24:57,914 --> 00:25:04,786 I feel it was Rikyu himself who beckoned death. 142 00:25:11,294 --> 00:25:18,393 Rikyu allowed no weapons in his Tea room... though his Tea was a battle. 143 00:25:25,108 --> 00:25:31,809 Taiko-sama put his sword away when facing Rikyu in the Tea room. 144 00:25:32,148 --> 00:25:34,241 In those circumstances... against Master... 145 00:25:35,252 --> 00:25:36,310 he had no chance. 146 00:25:38,088 --> 00:25:43,788 Who knows how many times Taiko had entered Rikyu's Tea Room... 147 00:25:44,628 --> 00:25:48,223 Dozens of times... perhaps even hundreds. 148 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:56,067 And every time he had to taste the bitter flavour of defeat. 149 00:27:27,431 --> 00:27:29,160 I see you like it. 150 00:27:32,570 --> 00:27:37,234 Poor Taiko, deprived of his sword... obliged to drink Rikyu's Tea, 151 00:27:37,508 --> 00:27:43,378 to see the exquisite tea bowl... like so many small cuts. 152 00:27:43,581 --> 00:27:45,208 Defeat was death. 153 00:27:49,487 --> 00:27:51,352 Taiko realized it. 154 00:27:53,290 --> 00:28:00,093 He must have wanted revenge... on the one who had continually bested him. 155 00:28:06,837 --> 00:28:13,301 In the end he banished Rikyu from Kyoto, sending him to Sakai. 156 00:28:16,213 --> 00:28:18,378 What happened after that? 157 00:28:19,917 --> 00:28:22,608 Honkakubo, have you no idea at all? 158 00:28:26,357 --> 00:28:29,150 It seems... we will never know. 159 00:28:36,701 --> 00:28:38,127 It's late. 160 00:28:40,538 --> 00:28:41,334 Stay here. 161 00:28:41,672 --> 00:28:43,299 Thank you very much. 162 00:28:44,408 --> 00:28:49,202 But the moonlight is beautiful. I'd like to walk back, enjoying it. 163 00:28:49,714 --> 00:28:51,238 As you wish. 164 00:29:15,773 --> 00:29:23,407 This river always reminds me of the day when master was banished. 165 00:29:23,848 --> 00:29:28,717 His boat went down river to the ferry at Yodogawa. 166 00:29:29,353 --> 00:29:34,752 He stayed two weeks in Sakai, and then his death was ordered. 167 00:29:58,849 --> 00:30:02,842 I know that my Lords Sansai and Oribe... 168 00:30:03,087 --> 00:30:05,920 came down to the river to see him off. 169 00:30:07,458 --> 00:30:09,756 I suspect they thought that Hideyoshi... 170 00:30:10,661 --> 00:30:14,529 would change his mind while Rikyu was in Sakai... 171 00:30:15,166 --> 00:30:19,262 and that he would soon call him back. 172 00:30:21,038 --> 00:30:24,102 Otherwise, they'd have never dared... 173 00:30:24,508 --> 00:30:31,737 to publicly bid farewell to a man know to have earned Taiko's wrath. 174 00:30:32,883 --> 00:30:33,747 But... 175 00:30:34,285 --> 00:30:37,880 Master must have been hearing the footsteps of death... 176 00:30:38,556 --> 00:30:41,252 getting ever closer. 177 00:30:46,730 --> 00:30:51,724 I can imagine how fierce he must have looked just then, 178 00:30:52,369 --> 00:30:55,270 even if I didn't see it myself. 179 00:30:55,973 --> 00:31:02,344 As I remember how terrible he looked once before. 180 00:31:03,848 --> 00:31:07,784 It was the morning of September 4th, Tensho 16... 181 00:31:09,019 --> 00:31:12,384 while Rikyu was living at Hideyoshi's Jurakudai residence. 182 00:31:31,942 --> 00:31:38,074 Today we receive three important guests from the Daitokuji Temple. 183 00:31:39,049 --> 00:31:41,677 Abbot Shunnoko is the most important. 184 00:31:42,353 --> 00:31:46,289 Abbot Kokei and Gyokuho are the other two. 185 00:31:48,092 --> 00:31:52,085 As their host, I will serve Tea. - Yes. 186 00:31:54,098 --> 00:31:59,900 Everything must be perfect... please pay special attention. 187 00:32:00,304 --> 00:32:00,998 Yes, sir 188 00:32:01,906 --> 00:32:03,537 But... why special? 189 00:32:03,641 --> 00:32:04,938 Abbot Kokei... 190 00:32:05,509 --> 00:32:10,346 has been banished to Kyushu. It's his farewell ceremony. 191 00:32:12,216 --> 00:32:18,553 What caused his banishment? - I don't know what or why. 192 00:32:20,791 --> 00:32:26,051 I also don't know when, or even if, he'll be pardoned. 193 00:32:26,497 --> 00:32:29,864 What scroll shall I hang for the ceremony? 194 00:32:31,201 --> 00:32:33,169 It should be... Kido's. 195 00:32:36,807 --> 00:32:40,208 Uh...The one Taiko entrusted to you? 196 00:32:43,247 --> 00:32:48,341 Without his authorization... don't you risk his wrath. 197 00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:50,778 That is why we shall use it. 198 00:32:54,658 --> 00:32:55,420 Very well! 199 00:33:10,207 --> 00:33:11,606 The poem... 200 00:33:12,176 --> 00:33:15,839 was perfect for the situation. It read: 201 00:33:17,148 --> 00:33:22,216 "Brilliant leaves falling. The autumn air, cold, bracing." 202 00:33:22,517 --> 00:33:27,017 "His meditations successful, the wiseman prepares to leave." 203 00:33:28,726 --> 00:33:33,661 "Pray he returns soon to tell us what he has seen.'' 204 00:33:34,565 --> 00:33:41,938 The poem expressed the thoughts of those about to see Abbot Kokei off to exile. 205 00:33:42,741 --> 00:33:45,835 This was its true relevance. 206 00:33:46,578 --> 00:33:48,205 All the same... 207 00:33:48,780 --> 00:33:54,218 .. hosting a farewell ceremony for one who has defied Taiko sama, 208 00:33:54,853 --> 00:33:59,256 and even more, in his own residence! 209 00:34:00,325 --> 00:34:03,852 The host must be mad! - As also the guests! 210 00:34:04,262 --> 00:34:09,429 I'm the worst, accepting such hospitality... what arrogance! 211 00:34:09,834 --> 00:34:12,859 But hanging Taiko-sama's precious Kido scroll... 212 00:34:13,038 --> 00:34:18,407 without authorization, sitting calmly... is without doubt... 213 00:34:18,576 --> 00:34:21,073 the ultimate arrogance! 214 00:35:06,925 --> 00:35:13,057 I needed to put back the Kido scroll as soon as possible... 215 00:35:13,998 --> 00:35:15,966 But, when I got back... 216 00:35:37,755 --> 00:35:39,679 They have departed. 217 00:35:51,102 --> 00:35:53,827 Let's leave it for a while. 218 00:35:56,608 --> 00:35:57,472 Yes. 219 00:37:21,192 --> 00:37:22,216 Honkakubo? 220 00:37:24,929 --> 00:37:25,657 Yes. 221 00:37:28,533 --> 00:37:30,360 I thought you might need a lamp? 222 00:37:31,836 --> 00:37:35,228 Oh... Is it that late? 223 00:37:49,354 --> 00:37:55,156 He sat like that without moving for half a day. 224 00:37:56,527 --> 00:38:02,424 How else could it be seen... but as a challenge to Hideyoshi's power. 225 00:38:03,301 --> 00:38:06,998 So was his attitude in the boat. 226 00:38:09,140 --> 00:38:15,272 Thus he defied Hideyoshi's vengeance, unperturbed, his head held high. 227 00:39:48,339 --> 00:39:49,628 Master. 228 00:39:52,243 --> 00:39:55,173 Lord Urakusai wants to know the truth. 229 00:39:55,546 --> 00:39:57,004 As do I. 230 00:39:57,949 --> 00:40:02,877 This sadness... so strong this evening. 231 00:40:03,054 --> 00:40:07,891 an uneasiness... Please free me from this uncertainty. 232 00:40:09,894 --> 00:40:14,062 Exactly... what did happen? 233 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:20,169 Feel free to think what you wish. It matters little. 234 00:40:20,370 --> 00:40:23,970 All the same... please tell me. 235 00:40:36,487 --> 00:40:43,723 Am I to tell you of the agony in which I ended my life? 236 00:40:46,464 --> 00:40:51,527 Are you really that cold hearted? 237 00:40:53,604 --> 00:40:57,597 Forgive me! Not a word more will I say! 238 00:40:59,844 --> 00:41:04,775 Forgive me! I beg of you... Forgive me! 239 00:42:02,608 --> 00:42:03,836 You're very diligent. 240 00:42:08,413 --> 00:42:09,539 Lord Uraku! 241 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,040 Please, please... 242 00:42:12,618 --> 00:42:16,479 You've come a long way? What brings you here? 243 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,980 I've come to see you. 244 00:42:20,058 --> 00:42:21,522 Really? 245 00:42:22,023 --> 00:42:25,023 You think I'd come this far for a joke? 246 00:42:25,831 --> 00:42:27,059 Thank you. 247 00:42:28,934 --> 00:42:31,425 Please come, my Lord. This way. 248 00:42:47,686 --> 00:42:51,588 It's been a while... This place refreshes my spirit. 249 00:43:11,510 --> 00:43:14,544 Welcome to my humble home. 250 00:43:14,780 --> 00:43:18,546 I should have come to see you... Forgive me. 251 00:43:18,817 --> 00:43:22,580 I've come to borrow something Daitokuya told me about... 252 00:43:22,988 --> 00:43:25,817 The book that Okano gave you. 253 00:43:26,618 --> 00:43:29,918 Are you talking about Yamanoue Soji's work? 254 00:43:30,095 --> 00:43:33,496 Will you lend it to me? - Of course, with pleasure. 255 00:43:33,799 --> 00:43:38,259 You could have sent me a message or someone to pick it up... 256 00:43:38,270 --> 00:43:41,762 instead of coming so far. - It's too precious for that. 257 00:43:43,141 --> 00:43:49,011 And of course, it would be rude of me not to come to see your retreat. 258 00:43:49,815 --> 00:43:54,013 Really? I fear... it isn't worthy. 259 00:43:54,014 --> 00:43:55,314 Not at all... 260 00:43:55,452 --> 00:44:01,249 You still have intimate conversations with Master Rikyu here... even after his death. 261 00:44:01,927 --> 00:44:04,491 I envy you. 262 00:44:06,164 --> 00:44:07,822 I'm humbled. 263 00:44:09,601 --> 00:44:11,425 Can I offer you tea? 264 00:44:12,070 --> 00:44:16,507 The kettle is always ready and a cold wind is blowing in the pines. 265 00:44:16,775 --> 00:44:18,106 Just like you. 266 00:44:49,808 --> 00:44:57,537 The tea room of frugal man. - Simple and clean. I like it. 267 00:44:59,184 --> 00:45:01,846 Nothing too formal... please don't mind. 268 00:45:01,953 --> 00:45:05,552 That's fine. I already feel at ease. 269 00:45:06,191 --> 00:45:10,689 Tell me what Yamanoue Soji has written. 270 00:45:11,129 --> 00:45:14,765 In a few words... what it's about. 271 00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:16,962 Well, to be brief... 272 00:45:17,069 --> 00:45:22,132 it reveals the sacred significance of the utensils of the Tea ceremony... his teaching. 273 00:45:23,608 --> 00:45:25,599 Only... - Only...? 274 00:45:26,011 --> 00:45:27,171 It's also written... 275 00:45:34,086 --> 00:45:38,284 "After I go to Kyoto and have passed away..." 276 00:45:38,790 --> 00:45:46,094 "give this book to my disciples. Let it be my bequest to them." 277 00:45:46,932 --> 00:45:53,428 "After I go to Kyoto and have passed away?" 278 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:55,836 Yes, My Lord. 279 00:45:56,575 --> 00:45:59,105 "He knew he was going to die." 280 00:46:04,783 --> 00:46:06,148 It's incredible! 281 00:46:08,053 --> 00:46:15,256 A strange and unforgettable scene remains etched in my mind. 282 00:46:16,061 --> 00:46:19,253 Does it have to do with Soji? 283 00:46:21,867 --> 00:46:26,327 It happened in the Yamasaki Tea room in Myokian. 284 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,776 I had only been serving Master Rikyu for two or three years. 285 00:46:34,112 --> 00:46:40,676 I didn't know the guests nor had I learned all the inticacies of a formal Tea Ceremony. 286 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,949 The Tea ceremony had been prolonged late into the evening. 287 00:46:46,958 --> 00:46:50,359 And was still going on. 288 00:47:43,315 --> 00:47:47,246 A scroll with the character for 'Nothingness' takes nothing from us. 289 00:47:54,860 --> 00:47:56,049 Light! 290 00:47:57,550 --> 00:47:58,750 Coming. 291 00:48:27,893 --> 00:48:33,431 Hang a scroll inscribed 'Nothingness', and nothing vanishes. 292 00:48:34,767 --> 00:48:36,964 But everything vanishes... 293 00:48:38,705 --> 00:48:41,397 if it's inscribed 'Death'. 294 00:49:00,359 --> 00:49:05,519 Terrible like the Lord of Tabi was he? - Exactly so. 295 00:49:05,898 --> 00:49:09,124 Then without doubt it was Yamanoue Soji. 296 00:49:09,468 --> 00:49:15,636 Even without flickering candlelight, Soji's face could be frightening. 297 00:49:17,076 --> 00:49:22,678 Was the scroll they hung inscribed with the character for 'Death'. 298 00:49:22,848 --> 00:49:27,410 But... nobody would've written that. - Soji would have. 299 00:49:29,388 --> 00:49:33,718 Whatever the case, he said it very succinctly. 300 00:49:35,061 --> 00:49:40,822 'Nothingness', nothing vanishes. 'Death', everything vanishes. 301 00:49:49,008 --> 00:49:54,173 While at Osaka castle, Higeyoshi made Yamanoue Soji his Tea Master. 302 00:49:55,047 --> 00:50:01,352 But having arroused Hideyoshi's displeasure, he was banished. 303 00:50:02,455 --> 00:50:08,919 Then, when Taiko attacked Odawara castle, Soji could have escaped. 304 00:50:09,729 --> 00:50:13,990 But then he appeared to purposely allow himself to be caught. 305 00:50:14,333 --> 00:50:17,268 Taiko Hideyoshi then ordered him... 306 00:50:18,337 --> 00:50:21,097 to perform the Tea Ceremony. 307 00:51:12,091 --> 00:51:12,853 Wait. 308 00:51:13,993 --> 00:51:17,751 You are renowned as being Rikyu's best disciple. 309 00:51:18,364 --> 00:51:20,264 What are you doing? 310 00:51:32,411 --> 00:51:33,378 Stop! 311 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:38,744 You shouldn't make tea that way. Are you trying to humiliate me? 312 00:51:39,518 --> 00:51:40,951 As you say... 313 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:45,751 this is not the formal way usually used. 314 00:51:47,226 --> 00:51:52,459 I told you to make it the proper way. 315 00:51:52,465 --> 00:51:57,031 In my opinion this way of making wabi tea is superior. 316 00:51:57,503 --> 00:51:58,365 Silence! 317 00:51:58,437 --> 00:52:06,974 Remember, you serve the Serene Kampaku. - 'Serene Kampaku', Hideyoshi Toyotomi. 318 00:52:09,048 --> 00:52:14,718 So long as you remain pompous and proud of your great power... 319 00:52:16,322 --> 00:52:21,988 it will be impossible to understand the true essence of the path of Tea. 320 00:52:22,189 --> 00:52:23,189 Shut up! 321 00:52:23,295 --> 00:52:27,825 This free style form is meant for a true man of Tea. 322 00:52:29,001 --> 00:52:32,169 Clearly it is not for you. 323 00:52:56,395 --> 00:52:59,428 Cut off his nose... and his ears! 324 00:54:17,176 --> 00:54:19,940 That's far enough. Let us part here. 325 00:54:20,379 --> 00:54:26,276 Yes. I will really miss you. - Be of good health. 326 00:55:51,236 --> 00:55:53,398 I'm back, Master. 327 00:55:54,441 --> 00:55:57,805 I saw Lord Urakusai off to Kyoto. 328 00:55:58,011 --> 00:55:59,442 That was good. 329 00:56:03,016 --> 00:56:06,747 Still, people want to talk about me... 330 00:56:08,021 --> 00:56:13,549 They bothered me in life... so even now in death. 331 00:56:13,993 --> 00:56:18,261 Forgive me. - It is not your fault. 332 00:56:21,701 --> 00:56:26,695 Shall I make you tea? - Ah, that would please me. 333 00:56:28,241 --> 00:56:32,040 Soon I'll make one for you. 334 00:56:35,982 --> 00:56:41,552 You must be lonely, Master. - I am not lonely. 335 00:56:42,889 --> 00:56:44,422 Tired and cold... 336 00:56:44,891 --> 00:56:50,251 from the long, dark road to death... in no way lonely. 337 00:56:51,798 --> 00:56:58,362 In my dream you told me to go back. And I obeyed. 338 00:56:58,772 --> 00:57:00,330 That's good. 339 00:57:01,207 --> 00:57:05,407 You must devote all of your life to the way of Tea. 340 00:57:06,546 --> 00:57:10,338 It's served well since the time of Jo. 341 00:57:11,718 --> 00:57:15,852 Now Soji and I are the last of that era. 342 00:57:17,891 --> 00:57:23,923 Did Soji really commit seppuku, as it's being said? 343 00:57:24,531 --> 00:57:26,055 Does it matter? 344 00:57:27,333 --> 00:57:32,568 The way he lived and died is only Soji's concern. 345 00:57:34,007 --> 00:57:37,636 Even if they had cut off his ears and nose... 346 00:57:38,478 --> 00:57:42,379 his death could only be that of a true Master. 347 00:57:43,216 --> 00:57:46,515 That strange night, in your Tea Room in Myokian... 348 00:57:48,521 --> 00:57:52,890 the one next to you was Yamanoue Soji. 349 00:57:53,393 --> 00:57:54,189 Yes... 350 00:57:56,129 --> 00:57:57,723 Who was the other? 351 00:57:59,599 --> 00:58:02,996 Well... who indeed? 352 00:58:04,170 --> 00:58:07,533 I remember... someone was there. 353 00:58:08,808 --> 00:58:14,178 I think... the seat was empty. - But someone... 354 00:58:14,814 --> 00:58:19,683 Forget it. It matters little who it was. 355 00:58:20,820 --> 00:58:26,683 Those who could suit that seat... are very few. 356 00:58:29,362 --> 00:58:32,760 Perhaps you could choose someone. 357 00:58:55,622 --> 00:59:00,059 On February 28th, the anniversary of Rikyu's death... 358 00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:05,627 I was on my way to visit his grave at Daitokuji Temple. 359 00:59:06,466 --> 00:59:10,393 It was there, that I met Urakusai sama again. 360 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,943 I recently finished Yamanoue Soji's secret manuscript that I borrowed from you. 361 00:59:26,319 --> 00:59:33,122 I was thinking to return it... when the incident at Odawara came to mind. 362 00:59:34,093 --> 00:59:37,426 Inside the castle, Soji was making Tea for the warriors 363 00:59:37,630 --> 00:59:45,901 while, on the outside, Rikyu was making Tea the for Hideyoshi's army. 364 00:59:46,239 --> 00:59:48,741 Both sides drank Tea before dying... 365 00:59:49,742 --> 00:59:51,742 Friend and foe alike. 366 00:59:53,613 --> 00:59:57,174 Rikyu saw lots of men rush to their deaths. 367 00:59:57,417 --> 00:59:58,850 Who knows how many? 368 00:59:59,152 --> 01:00:04,451 They drank Rikyu's Tea, dying to a life of desires. 369 01:00:05,652 --> 01:00:08,352 Most then died again in battle. 370 01:00:09,029 --> 01:00:13,493 How could he have wanted a natural death for himself? 371 01:00:15,835 --> 01:00:20,731 He helped them die, wasn't it so? 372 01:00:21,741 --> 01:00:24,539 His Tea Room wasn't for Zen meditation... 373 01:00:26,279 --> 01:00:28,672 but for accepting one's death. 374 01:00:32,819 --> 01:00:34,516 Furuta Oribe also... 375 01:02:57,730 --> 01:02:58,719 Its name? 376 01:03:01,534 --> 01:03:02,762 "Life" 377 01:03:35,302 --> 01:03:41,241 I would have liked to assist at such a serious Tea ceremony. 378 01:03:42,309 --> 01:03:46,975 I'm afraid it's rather unlikely in our times. 379 01:03:47,648 --> 01:03:50,448 Times have changed. 380 01:03:51,451 --> 01:03:57,321 Tea must change also... warriors as well as Tea masters. 381 01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:02,990 At the time of Rikyu's death, Furuta Oribe came to power. 382 01:04:03,797 --> 01:04:07,893 Is there anything you can tell me of the man? 383 01:04:11,371 --> 01:04:17,439 After Master Rikyu's death, I retired to a quiet life in Rakuboku. 384 01:04:17,811 --> 01:04:22,180 The only person I saw much of was the reverend Abbot Toyobo. 385 01:04:23,083 --> 01:04:27,649 Then, the decisive battle at Sekigahara and a new ruler... 386 01:04:27,988 --> 01:04:29,414 everything changed. 387 01:04:29,656 --> 01:04:31,685 In year 15 of KEICHO (1611)... 388 01:04:31,926 --> 01:04:35,953 I heard that Furuta Oribe was serving Shogun Ieyasu in Nijojo... 389 01:04:35,996 --> 01:04:39,727 as his Grand Master of Tea. 390 01:04:40,434 --> 01:04:43,762 Considering his new position, I decided to visit him... 391 01:04:43,971 --> 01:04:47,563 so I travelled to his residence in Hushimi. 392 01:05:21,575 --> 01:05:22,933 Welcome... 393 01:05:29,816 --> 01:05:33,181 You look well. - Thank you, my Lord. 394 01:05:33,182 --> 01:05:35,282 I am pleased to see you are also well. 395 01:06:17,864 --> 01:06:20,155 What is it? - Nothing. 396 01:06:20,801 --> 01:06:25,763 It's just that the way you make tea is exactly... as Master did. 397 01:06:25,939 --> 01:06:27,763 It pleases me to hear it. 398 01:06:31,745 --> 01:06:32,609 And that? 399 01:06:35,849 --> 01:06:40,183 It's been a long time since I sat in front of it with Master. 400 01:06:40,387 --> 01:06:45,283 When I'm alone and empty... I sit in front of it. 401 01:06:45,493 --> 01:06:52,160 "Harmony, Equality, Reverence, Simplicity" 402 01:06:53,100 --> 01:06:56,736 Rikyu's whole philosophy captured so beautifully. 403 01:06:59,740 --> 01:07:06,441 "Keep the essence of the path of Tea in your heart at every moment of your life." 404 01:07:07,881 --> 01:07:10,714 "Never take making Tea lightly." 405 01:07:13,487 --> 01:07:16,717 One needs a constant discipline to sustain such a practise. 406 01:07:18,025 --> 01:07:22,792 Rikyu always lived by these, his own words. 407 01:07:23,630 --> 01:07:27,896 They must have been in his heart, even in his last moments. 408 01:07:29,269 --> 01:07:35,606 Why would he want to get rich selling Tea ustensils? 409 01:07:37,711 --> 01:07:43,513 Or display his statue to boast? It makes no sense to me. 410 01:07:44,851 --> 01:07:47,085 Master Rikyu must be happy... 411 01:07:47,888 --> 01:07:50,982 that someone like you understands him so well. 412 01:07:53,293 --> 01:07:59,097 There's one thing I'd like to know. How he felt towards death. 413 01:08:01,435 --> 01:08:06,930 During those last two weeks in Sakai, his home town... 414 01:08:09,209 --> 01:08:12,076 what were his thoughts? 415 01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,178 What were his feelings? 416 01:08:19,686 --> 01:08:23,345 You served him for a long time. 417 01:08:24,224 --> 01:08:27,057 What do you think? - Well... 418 01:08:29,329 --> 01:08:30,921 I don't know... 419 01:08:31,531 --> 01:08:37,736 He could have saved his life, had he apologized to Taiko sama. 420 01:08:38,405 --> 01:08:42,808 Surely he could have pacified Hideyoshi, no matter how angry he was. 421 01:08:43,777 --> 01:08:46,844 And still, he didn't apologize. 422 01:08:48,415 --> 01:08:51,980 He didn't ask anyone to intercede. 423 01:09:00,260 --> 01:09:03,688 There's something else I want to share with you. 424 01:09:13,306 --> 01:09:16,469 I don't think you've seen this before. 425 01:09:27,754 --> 01:09:30,921 Master Rikyu... made this Tea spoon for me. 426 01:09:37,764 --> 01:09:43,828 It was Master's parting gift... Surely it embodies his last feelings. 427 01:09:44,905 --> 01:09:47,738 It's called "Tears". 428 01:09:54,347 --> 01:09:59,785 The case was designed to be like a mortuary tablet. 429 01:10:01,721 --> 01:10:09,787 After all, I wasn't the only one praying for Master Rikyu on a daily basis. 430 01:10:12,132 --> 01:10:13,156 "Tears" 431 01:10:20,707 --> 01:10:24,165 Now I think I know... what Oribe was thinking. 432 01:10:25,045 --> 01:10:29,038 How was that, my Lord? Please tell me. 433 01:10:29,883 --> 01:10:34,115 Oribe wanted to follow Rikyu even to death. 434 01:10:35,021 --> 01:10:40,516 Follow him even to death? - That was his desire. 435 01:10:41,494 --> 01:10:44,726 He had devoted himself to Rikyu. 436 01:10:47,134 --> 01:10:53,073 With the fall of Osaka castle, the new ruler was eliminating the losers. 437 01:10:55,776 --> 01:11:02,204 Oribe was arrested for having served Hideyoshi as Tea Master. 438 01:12:04,912 --> 01:12:08,313 Had he asked me, I could have helped him. 439 01:12:09,283 --> 01:12:10,648 He didn't. 440 01:12:14,221 --> 01:12:18,180 As Rikyu hadn't apologized before he died, 441 01:12:19,393 --> 01:12:21,857 neither would Oribe. 442 01:12:22,663 --> 01:12:29,262 I'm sure, the third person at that strange Tea ceremony at Myokian in Yamasaki... 443 01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:35,865 was non other than Oribe. 444 01:12:41,749 --> 01:12:46,652 A scroll inscribed with the character for 'Nothingness' takes nothing from us. 445 01:12:51,559 --> 01:12:54,187 Candle! - Yes. 446 01:13:19,587 --> 01:13:24,650 One inscribed with the character for 'Death' leaves us with nothing. 447 01:13:26,894 --> 01:13:32,962 'Nothingness' takes nothing. 'Death' takes all. 448 01:13:45,413 --> 01:13:49,408 The three men sitting there in complete silence... 449 01:13:49,750 --> 01:13:55,017 must have beem making a solemn committment to follow the path to the end. 450 01:13:56,323 --> 01:14:00,156 An unspoken vow even unto death. 451 01:14:01,095 --> 01:14:02,687 You said... 452 01:14:03,130 --> 01:14:07,526 that Oribe followed Rikyu's path in going to his death... 453 01:14:08,335 --> 01:14:12,266 could it be that he was holding true to that vow? 454 01:14:12,706 --> 01:14:14,271 To that vow? 455 01:14:15,943 --> 01:14:17,235 It could be. 456 01:14:18,813 --> 01:14:22,881 Soji commited hara-kiri, as did Rikyu commit hara-kiri... 457 01:14:23,851 --> 01:14:26,046 and Oribe did as well. 458 01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:27,748 It's unlikely... 459 01:14:28,823 --> 01:14:32,452 that any Tea Master today would go so far. 460 01:14:36,730 --> 01:14:38,322 I haven't killed myself. 461 01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,830 Yet I am a Tea Master. 462 01:15:04,525 --> 01:15:07,653 It was in the month of December in the following year. 463 01:15:08,229 --> 01:15:10,993 I was returning from mendicancy... 464 01:15:12,032 --> 01:15:14,364 and was thinking the garden needed sweeping. 465 01:15:16,871 --> 01:15:21,899 His hermitage is down there. - Thank you. 466 01:15:31,519 --> 01:15:34,454 Excuse me. Aren't you Master Sotan? 467 01:15:35,823 --> 01:15:36,721 Honkakubo! 468 01:15:37,992 --> 01:15:40,585 Is it possible you still remember me! 469 01:15:41,395 --> 01:15:45,595 Of course. I've come to see you. 470 01:15:46,100 --> 01:15:50,029 I've been looking for you. - You have? 471 01:15:51,672 --> 01:15:56,439 Since grandfather Rikyu died, you've remained a hermit. 472 01:15:58,746 --> 01:16:04,548 Some people said they saw you in Ohara village, others on Mount Hiei. 473 01:16:06,620 --> 01:16:10,114 Only recently I heard that you were living here. 474 01:16:15,095 --> 01:16:20,465 You were only 14 years old when Master Rikyu died. 475 01:16:23,938 --> 01:16:26,065 You're fully grown now. 476 01:16:46,327 --> 01:16:47,657 Tell me Honkakubo... 477 01:16:48,862 --> 01:16:53,565 In the end... why did Grandfather have to die? 478 01:16:57,972 --> 01:17:01,639 In actual fact... what really happened? 479 01:17:05,512 --> 01:17:10,176 In the last six months before his death, morning, afternoon and evening... 480 01:17:10,784 --> 01:17:15,744 he would perform at least three Tea ceremonies a day, 481 01:17:16,657 --> 01:17:20,725 almost one hundred ceremonies in that period alone. 482 01:17:21,526 --> 01:17:22,826 That's right... 483 01:17:23,230 --> 01:17:27,860 I had never seen him so absorbed, completely devoted to the way of Tea. 484 01:17:29,603 --> 01:17:33,437 As if he were saying, "A Tea Master should only make Tea." 485 01:17:34,208 --> 01:17:37,507 I think he was trying to pass on his beliefs... 486 01:17:37,811 --> 01:17:39,205 through his example. 487 01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:44,276 Of all those ceremonies, Taiko-sama attended five. 488 01:17:46,220 --> 01:17:53,820 One day... sometime just after the new year, about the time Rikyu received Lord Ieyasu, 489 01:17:54,795 --> 01:17:57,559 we heard that Taiko sama had become displeased with us. 490 01:17:58,298 --> 01:18:02,598 After that... everything seemed to change. 491 01:18:03,303 --> 01:18:04,662 Why was that? 492 01:18:05,172 --> 01:18:11,639 There could only be one reason in those days for such an unexpected change... 493 01:18:12,447 --> 01:18:16,078 for Taiko sama to become suddenly so angry with Master... 494 01:18:16,651 --> 01:18:23,215 who for many years had remained in Taiko sama's favour, no matter what he did. 495 01:18:24,092 --> 01:18:25,782 Only one reason? 496 01:18:26,528 --> 01:18:27,654 Yes. 497 01:18:29,464 --> 01:18:34,925 I think that... Hideyoshi still had one great ambition... 498 01:18:35,904 --> 01:18:43,076 It had long been his dream to invade Korea. He had prepared at great cost and was ready. 499 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:50,044 But Master... was against such aggresion and said so. 500 01:18:51,052 --> 01:18:52,280 Eventually... 501 01:18:54,689 --> 01:18:58,390 he must have come to know what Master was saying. 502 01:18:58,894 --> 01:19:03,287 So that's why... 503 01:19:48,276 --> 01:19:51,507 Honkakubo-sama! Are you in there? 504 01:19:52,108 --> 01:19:54,108 Hello... Hello? 505 01:19:54,608 --> 01:19:55,908 Yes... come in. 506 01:20:02,023 --> 01:20:03,581 I've been sent by Daitokuya... 507 01:20:09,564 --> 01:20:12,162 Lord Urakusai Oda has collapsed... 508 01:20:12,634 --> 01:20:14,226 He's near death. 509 01:20:15,503 --> 01:20:18,768 I've a horse for you outside... come... right away... 510 01:20:51,072 --> 01:20:53,131 Is that the sound of hail? 511 01:20:54,032 --> 01:20:55,032 Yes. 512 01:21:35,516 --> 01:21:37,147 It really was hail. 513 01:21:38,419 --> 01:21:40,649 The moss is completely covered. 514 01:21:46,961 --> 01:21:49,693 Honkakubo... - Yes. 515 01:21:50,932 --> 01:21:54,966 I wonder if I'll be able to follow that road... 516 01:21:56,170 --> 01:21:58,270 the one you dreamed about? 517 01:22:01,409 --> 01:22:02,903 probably not... 518 01:22:03,811 --> 01:22:06,211 I haven't committed seppuku... 519 01:22:08,182 --> 01:22:11,208 My death won't be marked by that pain and courage. 520 01:22:12,654 --> 01:22:14,353 If only... 521 01:22:16,224 --> 01:22:21,157 I knew how Rikyu felt in his last moments before death... 522 01:22:28,803 --> 01:22:30,233 I can tell you! 523 01:22:33,274 --> 01:22:34,298 Please allow me. 524 01:22:36,010 --> 01:22:39,577 It'd make me so happy... please do. 525 01:22:44,585 --> 01:22:48,648 Every night, I speak to my Master. 526 01:22:49,590 --> 01:22:51,619 I see him in my dreams. 527 01:22:52,493 --> 01:22:54,927 The other night he told me, 528 01:22:55,596 --> 01:23:00,499 what he had felt when death was closing in on him. 529 01:23:01,736 --> 01:23:05,128 In a dream he told you? - Yes. 530 01:23:07,008 --> 01:23:15,372 In TENSHO 19, on February 26th, Master was suddenly called back from Sakai. 531 01:23:15,850 --> 01:23:17,579 The morning of the 28th... 532 01:23:23,057 --> 01:23:25,821 At that moment, Master... 533 01:23:26,527 --> 01:23:30,360 was celebrating his last Tea ceremony. 534 01:23:40,274 --> 01:23:41,901 My Lord. 535 01:23:53,421 --> 01:23:56,049 Thank you for visiting my Tea Room. 536 01:24:00,762 --> 01:24:06,529 We met for the first time in the spring of Tensho 4 (1577)... 537 01:24:07,301 --> 01:24:12,971 in the Tea House in your castle in Azuchi. 538 01:24:14,809 --> 01:24:21,608 Since then, for almost fifteen years, I've been in your service... 539 01:24:22,316 --> 01:24:26,013 now it's time to say good-bye. 540 01:24:34,062 --> 01:24:38,590 Well... no need to say good-bye. 541 01:24:39,500 --> 01:24:45,302 That's not so, My Lord. I am to die. 542 01:24:47,542 --> 01:24:50,881 Right... don't be stubborn. 543 01:24:50,882 --> 01:24:55,182 I'm obliged to you for many things... 544 01:24:57,151 --> 01:25:00,816 the high station of Tea Master... 545 01:25:01,222 --> 01:25:04,250 your support to develop the path of Tea... 546 01:25:05,059 --> 01:25:09,022 and now finally... death. 547 01:25:10,698 --> 01:25:14,693 It is the greatest of your gifts. 548 01:25:16,070 --> 01:25:25,877 Your sentence of death has given me a new understanding of the path of the Tea. 549 01:25:27,482 --> 01:25:31,950 I thank you for that. 550 01:25:33,122 --> 01:25:37,688 Your sentence has set my spirit and body free. 551 01:25:39,862 --> 01:25:44,226 I used to talk of beauty and simplicity in the path of Tea, 552 01:25:44,566 --> 01:25:49,162 but without truly understanding it. 553 01:25:50,272 --> 01:25:54,208 Now that death is unexpectedly at my side, 554 01:25:55,177 --> 01:25:58,005 and I have to look straight into her eyes, 555 01:25:58,747 --> 01:26:04,049 no confusion is possibly anymore. 556 01:26:06,955 --> 01:26:11,223 "Simplicity" is stripped bare, what is called... 557 01:26:11,794 --> 01:26:14,758 a 'bone of death'. 558 01:26:14,897 --> 01:26:17,491 That may be, but let's put it behind us. 559 01:26:18,367 --> 01:26:20,801 Don't be obstinate, I say. 560 01:26:21,036 --> 01:26:25,268 During the years of our association, 561 01:26:25,774 --> 01:26:30,075 all my abilities have been available to you as Tea Master. 562 01:26:31,146 --> 01:26:37,050 Always you've used only what was of service to you. 563 01:26:37,519 --> 01:26:42,553 Now for the first time, you have rejected me completely, 564 01:26:42,925 --> 01:26:46,652 both my merits and my shortcomings. 565 01:26:46,762 --> 01:26:50,862 If that is the case, haven't you done the same to me. 566 01:26:52,401 --> 01:26:57,964 You have used your association with me... to advance your own ends. 567 01:26:58,307 --> 01:26:59,774 That's true. 568 01:27:01,510 --> 01:27:04,040 That was how it was supposed to be. 569 01:27:04,947 --> 01:27:10,283 Still, you have drawn your sword. 570 01:27:11,854 --> 01:27:14,820 This leaves me no choice... 571 01:27:15,023 --> 01:27:18,986 but to draw mine against you. 572 01:27:23,565 --> 01:27:29,565 Just as you, as the highest in the land, have rules that you must follow, 573 01:27:30,205 --> 01:27:35,636 so I, as a man of Tea, am bound by mine. 574 01:27:38,714 --> 01:27:44,784 Instead of merely unsheathing and flashing your sword, you should have... 575 01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:48,346 killed me with a single stroke! 576 01:27:50,192 --> 01:27:53,855 I could hear your voice when you gave the order... 577 01:27:54,596 --> 01:27:56,861 sending me into exile. 578 01:27:58,066 --> 01:28:01,365 "What is the Tea?" "What is simplicity?" 579 01:28:01,870 --> 01:28:06,028 "From the very beginning they have meant nothing to me." 580 01:28:06,408 --> 01:28:08,535 "It is but a game." 581 01:28:09,244 --> 01:28:10,376 Rikyu! 582 01:28:10,445 --> 01:28:14,445 At last you have acted as a true general. 583 01:28:14,650 --> 01:28:20,379 Now too, I must act as a true man of Tea. 584 01:28:21,223 --> 01:28:27,719 Thanks to you, I am at last awaking from a long nightmare. 585 01:28:30,232 --> 01:28:35,762 Rikyu had tried with Taiko sama's help to establish in this world... 586 01:28:35,969 --> 01:28:41,171 a small space free of ideas such as wealth and power, 587 01:28:41,208 --> 01:28:46,511 free from all the complications and contingencies of ordinary life. 588 01:28:47,483 --> 01:28:51,783 Of course, as it turned out, it was not to be. 589 01:28:52,688 --> 01:28:56,749 All he had to do was sit there alone by himself. 590 01:28:57,359 --> 01:29:00,055 Yes... exactly as you say. 591 01:29:01,997 --> 01:29:06,161 Still, in good faith, he tried to share it... 592 01:29:06,368 --> 01:29:09,360 with Taiko-sama and his generals. 593 01:29:10,872 --> 01:29:16,435 What a terrible error. - Reverend Master only realized it... 594 01:29:17,979 --> 01:29:22,909 at the very end, when he received the order to die. 595 01:29:24,152 --> 01:29:30,716 Rather, he suddenly remembered what he had known when he first started. 596 01:29:33,295 --> 01:29:35,629 Meaning... what? 597 01:29:35,864 --> 01:29:39,996 When he recalled the revelation he experienced... 598 01:29:40,035 --> 01:29:43,129 when he built his first little Tea Room in Myokian. 599 01:29:43,772 --> 01:29:48,539 This Tea Room was buit by my order. 600 01:29:50,178 --> 01:29:55,878 That gives Taiko the right to be here. - My Lord, it is not destined for you... 601 01:29:56,351 --> 01:30:00,048 but for Soeki and other men of Tea. 602 01:30:00,923 --> 01:30:05,482 It is a fortress for Rikyu, the Tea Master. 603 01:30:06,128 --> 01:30:14,763 A fortress where I fought this earthly world alone without any soldiers. 604 01:30:38,427 --> 01:30:40,759 Poetry master Jo used to say: 605 01:30:41,263 --> 01:30:45,290 "The purest poetry reduces all to a pithy essence." 606 01:30:46,101 --> 01:30:51,967 "He said too, the path of Tea must also be purified to an austere essence." 607 01:30:54,476 --> 01:30:58,143 In the time I've been in exile in Sakai... 608 01:30:58,947 --> 01:31:02,077 I have seen death. 609 01:31:02,551 --> 01:31:06,252 Sometimes as my guest, and sometimes as my host. 610 01:31:07,422 --> 01:31:09,754 I think this could be... 611 01:31:10,625 --> 01:31:14,152 the end of my path of Tea. - Enough, enough. 612 01:31:15,063 --> 01:31:17,759 You don't need to commit seppuku. 613 01:31:19,367 --> 01:31:22,063 Let's change the subject. Make me another bowl of tea. 614 01:31:22,370 --> 01:31:24,997 That I can not do! 615 01:31:26,908 --> 01:31:29,936 Many are waiting for me... 616 01:31:30,312 --> 01:31:35,777 to make a final tea in the larger shoin room. 617 01:31:35,984 --> 01:31:36,912 What? 618 01:31:36,985 --> 01:31:40,477 I know that many waiting in that room... 619 01:31:40,622 --> 01:31:45,359 died fighting against you. 620 01:31:47,062 --> 01:31:49,758 You should take care. 621 01:31:54,536 --> 01:32:00,670 Now my Lord, I bid you adieu. 622 01:32:33,942 --> 01:32:36,033 Who's out there? 623 01:32:41,149 --> 01:32:42,814 It's me, Honkakubo. 624 01:32:44,119 --> 01:32:45,450 I came to say farewell. 625 01:32:47,022 --> 01:32:50,219 It was kind of you to come. 626 01:32:52,260 --> 01:32:54,624 Come in. - Yes. 627 01:34:20,983 --> 01:34:26,184 We parted once before on that cold, dark, pebbly road. 628 01:34:28,958 --> 01:34:29,686 Yes, we have. 629 01:34:37,133 --> 01:34:38,828 Master! 630 01:35:12,535 --> 01:35:16,393 That road is mine to walk. 631 01:35:17,406 --> 01:35:20,273 It is not for you. 632 01:35:23,879 --> 01:35:28,578 But why? - It is the road of Rikyu. 633 01:35:29,985 --> 01:35:33,853 Each man of Tea has his own path. 634 01:35:37,393 --> 01:35:39,122 For good or for bad... 635 01:35:39,995 --> 01:35:44,022 Rikyu chose this dark and cold road, 636 01:35:44,834 --> 01:35:48,965 much like the path of Tea in these obscurantist days. 637 01:35:50,973 --> 01:35:55,433 Where does this road lead, Master? 638 01:35:57,113 --> 01:35:59,847 This path goes on forever. 639 01:36:01,250 --> 01:36:07,211 But, when the time comes that war is no more... 640 01:36:07,723 --> 01:36:09,417 it will be forgotten. 641 01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:14,625 This is Rikyu's path. 642 01:36:15,164 --> 01:36:18,729 I believe Rikyu will disappear when it does. 643 01:36:20,837 --> 01:36:25,073 So... your own path. 644 01:36:27,076 --> 01:36:29,171 I understand. 645 01:36:31,313 --> 01:36:35,010 Now I have no regrets. 646 01:36:37,052 --> 01:36:38,986 I am strengthened. 647 01:36:50,432 --> 01:36:54,591 The guests are walking toward the Tea Room. 648 01:36:54,670 --> 01:36:56,638 I have to go too! 649 01:36:59,608 --> 01:37:01,136 I see them... 650 01:37:03,445 --> 01:37:08,405 They're entering the Tea Room... 651 01:37:14,824 --> 01:37:16,951 Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu... 652 01:37:18,994 --> 01:37:21,963 Lord Maeda... 653 01:37:23,666 --> 01:37:25,031 poet Jo... 654 01:37:26,368 --> 01:37:28,962 Lord Mori... 655 01:37:29,872 --> 01:37:34,036 the Lord of Sado, Seyakuin... 656 01:37:36,779 --> 01:37:38,576 Lord Sansai... 657 01:37:39,682 --> 01:37:41,411 Lord Takayama Ukon... 658 01:37:42,718 --> 01:37:49,556 Toda Minbe, Chaya Shirojiro, Hariya Sowa, Mozuya Soan too. 659 01:37:53,462 --> 01:37:56,454 Kokei, Shunnoku, and Gyokuho. 660 01:37:57,466 --> 01:38:04,030 The Lords Matsunaga, Akechi Hyuganokami, Miyoshi Jikkya, Seda Kabu and Ishida Chibu. 661 01:38:06,075 --> 01:38:07,702 Revernd Abott Toyo... 662 01:38:45,848 --> 01:38:47,281 Honkakubo... 663 01:38:48,083 --> 01:38:51,382 I'm here... Urakusai sama. 664 01:41:11,361 --> 01:41:12,385 Master... 665 01:43:58,428 --> 01:44:02,762 Year 7 of GENWA (1623) on December 13th... 666 01:44:03,900 --> 01:44:09,902 Lord Oda Nagamasa... passed away. 667 01:47:42,100 --> 01:47:45,003 THE END