- Published: 1 November 2010
- ISBN: 9780141191843
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 112
- RRP: $22.99
The Book Of Tea
Little Black Classics
First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much more - introduced by Christopher Benfey
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."
- Published: 1 November 2010
- ISBN: 9780141191843
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 112
- RRP: $22.99
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About the author
Kakuzo Okakura (1863–1919)--scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.