Yamashina Hechigwan

, originally with the surname and sometimes called "Nyomugwan", was a 16th-century Japanese tea connoisseur and poet from Kyoto.

Biography His birth and death dates are unknown. The birthplace is also unknown, with Mino Province and Kyoto being proposed. He lived for a time at a retreat he set up in Yamashina in Kyoto. It is said he learned the tea ceremony from tea master Takeno Jōō. He married the niece of physician Manase Dōsan. He shunned pomp and splendour in the tea ceremony, preferring the austere beauty of the wabi-suki aesthetic.

Different sources also pronounce his name as "Pechikwan", "Pechikan", and "Hechikan". In Japanese, his name can be written 丿観, 丿貫, 丿垣, and 別貫. The kanji "丿" is often mistaken for the katakana character "ノ" ("no"). His choice of this character for his name may have been intended to indicate his eccentricity (curving to one side, it has been taken to mean that his heart did not follow a straight path)

Hechikan was critical of Rikyū because he felt that the latter had not experienced the hardships of poverty; he himself was not particularly wealthy, and survived by begging. On one occasion, Hechikan sold his tea utensils to raise funds, only to have the money stolen from his house.

In later life he moved to Satsuma. Although it appears that he wrote poetry, he apparently collected and burned all his poems shortly before his death.

Hyouge Mono (Japanese: へうげもの Hepburn: Hyōge Mono, lit. "Jocular Fellow") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada. It was adapted into an anime series in 2011, where Hechikan is portrayed.