The tea ceremony is one of the most refined, sophisticated and distinctive disciplines of Japanese culture. What began as a simple pastime, became over the centuries an essential social skill among the distinguished classes, until it became a path of reflection, meditation and self-knowledge and a way to preserve the cultural legacy of traditional Japan. In these hundred poems, inscribed on the sliding doors of one of the rooms of the Konninchian in Kyoto, the enduring wisdom of the tea masters of the past is captured: a valuable treasure transmitted from generation to generation that today comes to us to remind us that beauty exists even where it is not sought.