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context: gardens > tea gardens
Furuta Oribe
Like Rikyu, Oribe was a tea master - in fact he was Rikyu's pupil, and their rupture on aesthetic principles is a major one in gardening history. Oribe did not accept the need for naturalness. He would use rectangular paving stones, out of the question for Rikyu, and do things like scattering pine needles beneath deciduous trees because he thought they looked good there. He abandoned the idea of artlessness - which in practice had often been contrived apparent artlessness - in favour of making the garden a creation, an unmistakeably made aesthetic artefact.