The Book of Tea

byKakuzo Okakura, Christopher Benfey (Introducer)
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."

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  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • ISBN: 9780141191843
  • Length: 112 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 7mm x 128mm
  • Weight: 90g
  • Price: £8.99
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