Author: Kakuzo Okakura
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: tea, book
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 1964-06-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0486200701
ISBN-13: 9780486200705

That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the

Author: Kakuzo Okakura
Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLC
Keywords: tea, book
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1604506067
ISBN-13: 9781604506068

The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste. (from "The Book of Tea")

Authors:Kakuzo Okakura, 1stWorld Library,
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Keywords: tea, book
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1595400451
ISBN-13: 9781595400451

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates pu