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Publication
Charles E. Tuttle Company (Rutland, VT)
Call number
RAR.AHC.OKK.BOT
Library's review
Many have been the commentaries on the unique cultural tradition of Japan, and yet few have had the meaningfulness and vitality of 'The Book of Tea', written some fifty years ago by Okakura Kazuko, one of the most outstanding personages among the makers of modern Japan. This modest little book...
'The title is deceptive. It is neither simply a study of "tea" nor yet an esoteric study of Japan's tea cult. Rather it is a magnificent attempt to make understandable, through the tea cult, the essence of Japanese culture... In the art of the tea-master, Okakura found the embodiment of the Zen outlook that permeates Japanese culture. More than that, for him the tea cult represented the spirit fo the art of refined living so conspicuously absent in a world "shattered in the Cyclopean struggle for wealth and power."'
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has been traslated into a score of languages, and continues to be a best-seller.'The title is deceptive. It is neither simply a study of "tea" nor yet an esoteric study of Japan's tea cult. Rather it is a magnificent attempt to make understandable, through the tea cult, the essence of Japanese culture... In the art of the tea-master, Okakura found the embodiment of the Zen outlook that permeates Japanese culture. More than that, for him the tea cult represented the spirit fo the art of refined living so conspicuously absent in a world "shattered in the Cyclopean struggle for wealth and power."'
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