The Book of Tea

Cover Art for 9781105490255, The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
ISBN: 9781105490255
Publisher: LULU PR 01/05/2013
Published: 1 January, 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Editions:
53 other editions of this product

The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer, painting-our very literature-all have been subject to its influence. No student of Japanese culture could ever ignore its presence. It has permeated the elegance of noble boudoirs, and entered the abode of the humble. Our peasants have learned to arrange flowers, our meanest labourer to offer his salutation to the rocks and waters. In our common parlance we speak of the man with no tea in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. Again we stigmatise the untamed aesthete who, regardless of the mundane tragedy, runs riot in the springtide of emancipated emotions, as one with too much tea in him. -The Book of Tea 1906

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