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The Book of Tea

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First published: 1906
Pages: 53

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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Okakura Kakuzō wrote this slender book in English to explain the spirit of the Japanese tea ceremony to Western readers who, he felt, saw only quaint ritual where a whole philosophy lay hidden. Teaism, as he called it, gathers up Zen and Taoist thought, the love of the imperfect and the simple, and turns the making of a bowl of tea into a discipline of harmony, humility, and attention. Moving through the history of tea, the design of the tea room, flowers, and the great tea masters, Okakura gently reproves the West for its condescension toward the East while offering its aesthetic ideals as a common human inheritance. Graceful and quietly persuasive, the essay has introduced generations of readers to Japanese art and sensibility. This free PDF and EPUB edition presents the complete text.

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Okakura Kakuzō

Okakura Kakuzō (1862-1913), also known as Okakura Tenshin, was a Japanese scholar and art critic who championed traditional Asian art during Japan's rapid modernization. A co-founder of the Tokyo art school and later a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he wrote several books in English for Western audiences.

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