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Kakuzo Okakura
Gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts…
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Japan - described and illustrated by the Japanese is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…
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"The Book of Tea" by Kakuzo Okakura is a classic work that explores the philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural significance of tea in Japanese society. Originally published in 1906, this book…
The Book of Tea ?A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906) by Okakura Kakuzo (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chado (teaism) to…
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…
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Kakuzo Oakura’s The Book of Tea explores and celebrates the history of tea and the Japanese tea ceremony, and more than this, this delightful, meandering classic touches on subjects such…
The Book of Tea is a long essay linking the role of tea (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. Addressed to a western audience, it was…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
A timeless classic that points to tea as Asia’s unique power to influence the world.
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Hardcover gift edition of the bestselling book that introduced Western audiences to the tea ceremony. It traces the custom from its roots in Taoism to its role as a Zen…
This extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art, providing the earliest lucid English-language account of Zen Buddhism and its relation to the arts.
The Book of Tea' is a philosophical treatise written by Kakuzo Okakura, a Japanese scholar, art critic, and curator, first published in 1906. This influential work explores the aesthetics, cultural…
The meaning and practice of Tea.
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented…
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chado (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life.
