Description
| Product ID: | 9780141191843 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Book of Tea |
| Authors: | Author: Kakuzo Okakura |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology: customs & traditions, Food and drink: non-alcoholic beverages, Non-alcoholic beverages, Japan |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. This book addresses the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. 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." |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-09-30 |
