It was the Sengoku period, a time when warlords seized power from one another. There was a man whose soul was consumed by the ways of tea and material greed as he climbed toward greater power and status. His name was Furuta Sasuke, a subordinate warrior of Oda Nobunaga. With his horizons expanded by the genius Nobunaga and his spiritual insight learned from the tea master Sen no Rikyū, Sasuke embarked on the path of hyouge. To live or not to live. For the power of the art. That is the question!