The Book of Tea
Introduction by - Christopher Benfey
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 30 Sep 2010
£8.99
Synopsis
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."
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191843
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 128
Published : 30 Sep 2010
Publisher : Penguin Classics
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Introduction by - Christopher Benfey
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