During the Edo period, the fundamental sense of beauty of tea ceremony became established and even apocryphal books emerged such as "Shoo Wabi no Bun" (Shoo essay on wabi) defining wabi as 'honestly and prudence,' and "Nanporoku" which described wabi as 'Buddha's world of purity.'
江戸時代に多くの茶書によって茶道の根本美意識と位置付けられるようになり、侘を「正直につつしみおごらぬ様」と規定する『紹鴎侘びの文』や、「清浄無垢の仏世界」とする『南方録』などの偽書も生み出された。