The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea

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Non-Fiction, Food & Drink, Drinks, Home & Garden, Home | Paperback Published on: 30/09/2010
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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."

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141191843
  • Number of pages: 112
  • Weight: 89g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 6 mm

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The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea
This booklet is more of an essay on Japanese culture as a whole than on the tea ceremony alone. It not only describes the context and symbolism of the Japa... READ MORE
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