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