Cover of Kakuzo Okakura, Christopher Benfey (INT): The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura, Christopher Benfey (INT) The Book of Tea

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Book information

Penguin Group USA

USA

2010

Paperback

89

Light

249397

978-0-14-119184-3

0-14-119184-8

Annotation

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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