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The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura
That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist styliza...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781438518916
ISBN-10: 1438518919
Publication Date: 6/8/2009
Pages: 54
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Publisher: Book Jungle
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I was recommended this book via a sculpture professor. It "blends a hsitory of tea and the Japanese tea ceremony with descriptions of Taoism and Zen...teh result is an eloguent treatise on tea and the aesthetics of Japan." (back cover) I appreciated the subtle ties of eastern culture and western ways.



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