The Book of Tea
| Author | : Kakuzo Okakura |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2010-09-30 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780141932729 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0141932724 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Book of Tea written by Kakuzo Okakura and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
