Kaiseki: satisfying six senses

During the long periods of meditation the Zen-monks placed a heated stone in the breast pocket of their kimono to sooth their hunger.

"There is shelter enough when the roof does not leak, food enough when it staves off hunger."

Rikyû in Nambôroku

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Hunger, 6-fold, is the source of suffering:
the hunger to see, to feel, to taste, to smell, to hear and to know.
When this hunger is satisfied, suffering ends

(Buddhas teaching of suffering) 

The meal for a gathering in a small room should be but a single soup and two or three dishes, ..elaborate preparation of food for the wabi gathering is inapprobriate.

Sen no Rikyû: Nombôroku