Word: chanoyu
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...when he was 66, Masuda retired and became elder statesman to the House of Mitsui. Five years later he was named Baron Masuda. He took to collecting paintings, sculpture and pottery, devoted himself to the cult of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony). A heavy eater and drinker in his younger days, he developed stomach trouble, had to watch his diet. He kept a cow and whatever his cow ate Masuda would eat, including grass. When a neighbor recommended globefish as a particular delicacy, he offered some to his cow (who loved eels and herring). The cow refused and so did Masuda...