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Kakuzo Okakura ,
Christopher Benfey
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Zen and the art of tea--the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life.
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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Pages: 128
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 2010-12-28
ISBN: 9780141191843
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