THE BOOK OF TEA
True beauty can only be discovered by someone who spiritually completes the incomplete.
Connecting the role of tea with the aesthetic and cultural side of Japanese life, the well-known Book of tea by Kakuzo Okakura has been bringing the inexhaustible culture of Asia to the West for over a century. Readers are invited to discover a tradition that combines beauty with simplicity and take a journey from Chinese Taoism to Buddhist Zen, the Japanese tea ceremony: an enchanting practice with diverse architectural, ceramic and floral references, a unified vision of life and art that engages all the senses, calms the mind and invigorates the spirit.
THE BOOK OF TEA
THE Kakuzo Okakura was born in Yokohama, Japan to a family of the samurai class. He traveled to China, India and Europe, supporting and promoting the international character of Japanese and Asian culture. Write it down Book of tea in English, with a view to the wider dissemination both of his own ideas and of the Asian tradition in general.
THE BOOK OF TEA
Western thought and Eastern philosophy, phlegmatic humorous writing and fundamental essays, timeless poetry and immortal little prose. Texts that marked their time and are still read everywhere. She is the select series of Oxy editions.
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Born in Yokohama to parents originally from Fukui, Okakura learned English while attending a school operated by Christian missionary, Dr. Curtis Hepburn. At 15, he entered Tokyo Imperial University, where he first met and studied under a Harvard-educated professor Ernest Fenollosa. In 1889, Okakura co-founded the periodical Kokka.[2] In 1887[3] he was one of the principal founders of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校 Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkō), and a year later became its head, although he was later expelled from the school in an administrative struggle. Later, he also founded the Japan Art Institute with Hashimoto Gahō and Yokoyama Taikan. He was invited by William Sturgis Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1904 and became the first head of the Asian art division in 1910.
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