The Book of Tea, Paperback / softback Book

The Book of Tea Paperback / softback

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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, 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."

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