Stock ID #133839 The Book of Tea. KAKUZO OKAKURA, CHRISTOPHER E. G., BENFEY.

The Book of Tea.

London. Penguin. 2010. Stock ID #133839

xxi + 89pp. Paperback.

"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'." (Publisher's description).

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