The names of famous people who favored sencha were Jozan ISHIKAWA, who was a famous person in the early Edo period, Akinari UEDA during the mid-Edo period, and Sanyo RAI of the late Edo period.
煎茶を好んだ著名人として江戸初期の石川丈山、中期に上田秋成、後期には頼山陽の名が挙げられる。