The Book Of Tea
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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 details
- Paperback | 112 pages
- 129 x 198 x 6mm | 89g
- 17 Jul 2019
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Penguin Classics
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 0141191848
- 9780141191843
