I was watching NHK's "Heroes' Choice: Pro's Choice for the "Strongest" Warlord of the Warring States.

Japan's three great warlords, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu, rewarded generals for their military exploits with "tea utensils".

Since the raw material of teaware is silicon -- that is, mud or clay -- it can be said that the value of teaware was in its design.

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I actually like pottery quite a bit, and when I go back to my parents' house, I go to a Tokoname-yaki store and buy a tea bowl that I like.

"I am refilling my favorite teacups because my daughters use them and break them regularly"

And I also like "owl" pottery, which I have displayed at the entrance of my parents' house.

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By the way, I don't have an appraising eye for pottery -- not at all. I am not interested in a single millimeter of pottery other than what I use on a daily basis.

I don't know what is so good about "flat spider(*)" that Hisahide Matsunaga owned, and if I had "tsukumo-gami eggplant", I can be sure that I would definitely put a "cucumber cue-chan" in it.

(For those interested in the dramatic anecdotes about this tea kettle, please Google it.)

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I've been watching the show for a while now, and I've been thinking about,

"Nobunaga created the "bitcoin(*)" called "tea utensils" in that era, didn't he?"

We can see Nobunaga's sense of economic policy in that he created a new currency (creditor credit) at a time of war when land and coin were in short supply.