The Book Of Tea - Softcover

Okakura, Kakuzō

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1798684128 ISBN 13: 9781798684122

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

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. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste. - Taken from "The Book Of Tea" written by Kakuzō Okakura

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1798684128
• ISBN 13: 9781798684122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 97