The Book of Tea
Author(s): Kakuzo Okakura
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 Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin
- : 0.091
- : 01 November 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 6mm
- : 01 December 2010
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kakuzo Okakura
- : Paperback
- : 1012
- : English
- : 394.10952