Nōami 能阿弥
Nōami(能阿弥, 1397–1471) was a Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate. An astute art connoisseur, Nōami collected Chinese paintings and other works of art for the shogunate, and served as an advisor in the ways of Japanese tea ceremony, incense and a variety of other elements related to the arts. He taught the tea ceremony to Murata Jukō.