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Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo shows how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture thought and life. The book is accessible to Western audiences because though…
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Gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts…
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The Book of Tea ?A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906) by Okakura Kakuzo (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chado (teaism) to…
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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…
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This classic treatise on Japanese aesthetics and culture explores the role of tea in Japanese society and its profound influence on Japanese art, literature, and philosophy. Okakura's eloquent prose and…
The Book of Tea' is a philosophical treatise written by Kakuzo Okakura, a Japanese scholar, art critic, and curator, first published in 1906. This influential work explores the aesthetics, cultural…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This intriguing and enlightening volume discusses the history and meaning of the tea ceremony. A must-read for anyone who is interested in Japanese culture. Newly designed and typeset in a…
A timeless classic that points to tea as Asia’s unique power to influence the world.
Written in English by a Japanese scholar in 1906, The Book of Tea is an elegant attempt to explain the philosophy of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, with its Taoist and…
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chado (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
This extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art, providing the earliest lucid English-language account of Zen Buddhism and its relation to the arts.
Hardcover gift edition of the bestselling book that introduced Western audiences to the tea ceremony. It traces the custom from its roots in Taoism to its role as a Zen…
The meaning and practice of Tea.
Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler.
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Japan - described and illustrated by the Japanese is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…
