Victor Hugo Kebbe reviewed The book of tea by Okakura Kakuzo
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3 stars
Re-read, a classic that says a lot not only about the Tea Ceremony and teaism, but Japanese Culture.
76 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1964 by Dover Publications.
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.