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Title: Book of Tea, The
Author: OKAKURA KAKUZO
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 22/11/2010
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $22.99
Publishing status: Active
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.’
ISBN: 9780141191843
Pages: 112