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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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"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…
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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…
Okakura Kakuzo
An enlightening account of how the Japanese tea ceremony influences so much of Japanese life and culture.
The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience, celebrates the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importance with Zen Buddhism and…
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The Book of Tea, one of the great English tea classics, is a long essay about the connection between teaism, Taoism, and the aesthetics of Japanese culture. It was written…
Originally published: New York: Duffield & Company, 1923.
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a…
The meaning and practice of Tea.
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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Okakura Kakuzo,Andrew Juniper
The Book of Tea doesn’t focus on the Tea Ceremony itself, but the Zen Buddhist thought behind it known as the Way of Tea or Chado.
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The Book of Tea (1906) is a book-length essay by Okakura Kakuzo. Connected to the author's overall project of celebrating Japanese culture and emphasizing the role of the East in…
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First thoroughly annotated edition of The Book of Tea, the most important book on tea in the culture of Asia and the tea ceremony, with particular regard to Japan
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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…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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A timeless classic that points to tea as Asia’s unique power to influence the world.
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…
