Furuta Oribe

• Born: 1544
• Died: 1615
• Japanese: 古田 織部 (Furuta Oribe)

Furuta Oribe was a prominent tea master of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods.

Oribe studied Zen under Shun'oku Sôen.

His students in tea culture included Kobori Enshû. Oribe circulated among his students manuscript copies of his personal secrets to tea practice, a document entitled Chadô hiden ("Secret Transmissions of the Way of Tea,"

1615).