Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature.
Readers.
This Book is for all students of Japanese art and culture.
Admirers of the Japanese Aesthetic will want to own this classic work.
Contains a new foreword by Andrew Juniper.
The Book of Tea is a delightful cup of enlightenment from a man far ahead of his time.
Interwoven with a rich history of Japanese tea and its place in Japanese society is a poignant commentary on Asian culture and our ongoing fascination with it, as well as illuminating essays on art, spirituality, poetry, and more.
Nearly a century later, Kakuzo\'s The Book of Tea is still beloved the world over, making it an essential part of any tea enthusiast\'s collection.
Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English, and was more than capable of expressing to Westerners the nuances of tea and the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
Little known at the time, Kakuzo would emerge as one of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, a genius who was insightful, witty, and greatly responsible for bridging Western and Eastern cultures.
It was authored by Okakura Kakuzo, a Japanese philosopher, art expert, and curator.
In 1906, in turn-of-the-century Boston, a small, esoteric Book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella Stewart Gardner--Boston\'s most notorious socialite.
This edition has a new foreword by Andrew Juniper, who runs the Wabi-Sabi Art Gallery in West Sussex, England, and an introduction by Liza Dalby, the first American woman to be fully trained as a geisha in Japan in the 1970\'s.
His powerful message is even more relevant today than when he wrote this book, and it serves as a wonderful introduction to the aesthetics of Japanese culture.
Kakuzo teaches us to cultivate an everyday awareness of the Beauty in all the common things around us.
The Book of Tea doesn\'t focus on the tea ceremony itself, but rather on the Zen Buddhist philosophy behind it. --The Japan Times Now in paperback with a new foreword and new photographs This classic work by Okakura Kakuzo has inspired many generations of readers by illuminating the underlying spirit and message of the venerable Japanese tea masters.
An early cultural activist, Okakura\'s mission was to preserve Japanese art and Aesthetic practices from an extinction that seemed imminent.
Along the way exploring topics related to tea appreciation, including Zen, flower arranging and Taoism.
Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature
