Tea making utensils changed from those of simple and quiet understated elegance in the past to, for example, natsume (a powdered tea container) of opulent gold-relief lacquer ware and tea making utensils continued to become more extravagant and conspicuous with time from then onward to the present day.
茶道具もそれまでの侘びた目に立たないものから、例えば華やかな蒔絵の棗など、これ以降現代に時代を下れば下るほど派手で、目立つものになってゆく。