 Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master s death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin s father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord s plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.