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."
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141191843Number of pages: 112Weight: 89 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 6 mm
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