It is said that it was created by fusing cultures of the samurai class, the nobility, and Zen priests around the Higashiyama mountain villa in Kyoto which was built by Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, the eighth shogun (1436-1490).
八代将軍足利義政（1436年-1490年）が築いた京都の東山山荘を中心に、武家、公家、禅僧らの文化が融合して生まれたとされる。