Rikyu installed a wooden statue of himself in the upper storey (so that those who pass through the gate must pass below Rikyu), but this enraged Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI who used this as a pretext for pressuring Rikyu to commit suicide.
利休は上層に自身の木像を安置した（つまり、門をくぐる者は利休の下を通ることになる）が、これが豊臣秀吉の怒りを買い、秀吉はこのことを楯に利休に自決を迫ったという。