Okakura Kakuzo: The book of tea (1980, C.E. Tuttle Co.)
133 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 1980 by C.E. Tuttle Co..
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 purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.
Re-read, a classic that says a lot not only about the Tea Ceremony and teaism, but Japanese Culture.
