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context: tea ceremony > history > Rikyu
Rikyu: Influence, Descendants and Schools
Although after Rikyu's death the samurai and nobility moved away from his ideas, his descendants sustained and propagated his ideas. His great-grandsons in particular started tea ceremony schools that took a way that was originally about naturalness and ossified it. Strict rules, certification, rigid aesthetics. These schools still exist, have vast memberships and are among Japan's most powerful cultural institutions.