Hyouge Mono

Hyouge Mono (へうげもの) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada. It was serialized in the manga magazine Weekly Morning from 2005 to 2017 and collected into 25 volumes by publisher Kodansha. Hyouge Mono won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009. It also won the Grand Prize at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2010. The manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2011.

Plot

During the Sengoku period in Japan, while the shadow of Oda Nobunaga still looms over the land, the warlord Furuta Sasuke loses his soul to the tea ceremony. While war shakes the world around him, he faces his own conflict between his desire for promotion and his love for his art.

Characters

Other characters include Nobunaga's African retainer Yasuke (voiced by Takaya Kuroda),[2] tea connoisseur Hechikan, Hideyoshi's wife Kita no Mandokoro and his concubine Lady Chacha, his mother Ōmandokoro, and the painter Hasegawa Tōhaku.

• Furuta Sasuke (古田 左介)
• A vassal of Oda Nobunaga. He is an aesthete, a person who holds a dear appreciation of art and beauty. He is obsessed with the form of glazed pottery, tea, and architecture. He is married to Osen (voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi).
• Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長)
• An ambitious man who seeks control over not only Japan, but also the Ming (Chinese) and Joseon (Korean) dynasties. Sasuke is one of his vassals.
• Sen no Sōeki (千 宗易)
• The most influential tea master. He greedily pursues a life centered around the wabi-sabi worldview. Sasuke is one of his pupils.
• Hashiba Hideyoshi (羽柴 秀吉)
• A sharp vassal of Oda Nobunaga who becomes a powerful person after Nobunaga's death. He likes women and has no sense of aesthetics.
• Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀)
• An idealistic vassal of Oda Nobunaga, he feels antipathy to his lord's policy.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康)
• A loyal vassal from Mikawa. He has a strong sense of justice, and succeeds Oda in his work to reunify Japan.
• Oda Nagamasu (織田 長益)
• A younger brother of Nobunaga. He is a smart playboy and smooth fellow.
• Ishida Mitsunari (石田 三成)
• A loyal vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He is a meticulous person and has little interest in art.

Media

Reception

Hyouge Mono won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009.[20][21] It also won the Grand Prize at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2010.[22]

See also

• Bōkyō Tarō, another manga series by the same author

External links

• Official blog
• Official manga website at Weekly Morning
• Official anime website at the NHK