The Book of Tea : Japanese Tea Ceremonies and Culture by Okakura Kakuzo

The Book of Tea : Japanese Tea Ceremonies and Culture // by Okakura Kakuzo

Hardback. 96 pages.

17 line artworks, 17 illustrations.

Approximate measurements: 20cm x 27cm x 2.5cm

Absolute essential reading comes in the form of this book. A true classic!

With a brand new introduction, this is an exquisitely produced edition of a classic text made using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques.

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For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a flash of inspiration, Okakura saw that the formal tea party as practiced in New England was a distant cousin of the Japanese tea ceremony, and that East and West had thus "met in the tea-cup."