During the middle of the Edo period, the world of sencha shumi which, at first, had not progressed beyond mimicking Chinese culture, began to show its own style led by Baisao, and it spread widely to the upper class mainly in Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka.
江戸中期になると売茶翁により、それまで中国文化の模倣の域を出なかった煎茶趣味の世界に独自の方向が示され、さらに煎茶は江戸や京都・大坂を中心に上流階級に広く普及した。