Furuichi Harima) was a minor Japanese lord and cha-no-yu aficionado during the Sengoku period.
[1] He also received the Shinkei Sōzu Teikin, an essay on the composition of renga poetry, from Inawashiro Kensai.
[2] Chōin was an acolyte at the temple at Kōfuku-ji,[3] having been sent to study there at the age of 13.
Ten years later, he became the leader of a group of warrior monks.
[4] He later became daimyō of Furuichi, a small town near Nara, and his family developed a reputation as patrons of the arts.