Staff ID:
author: Okakura Kakuzo
2021-10-14
Amber Books Ltd
Book Of Tea | Okakura Kakuzo
AED
109
Easy Payment Plans
i
Same-day to 2-day delivery
Check availability in store
Please enable your browser location services in order for us to help you get personalized store listing based on your current location. Alternatively, you may proceed to choose store from list or search for your favorite store.
Store finder
The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience, celebrates the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importance with Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Covering cultural life, aesthetics and philosophy, this is an exquisitely produced edition using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques.
109.0
100.0
200.0
AED
109
Easy Payment Plans
i
‘Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage,’ are the opening words of Okakura Kakuzō’s The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience. The book is a long essay celebrating the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importance with Zen Buddhism and Taoism. It is both about cultural life, aesthetics and philosophy, emphasising how Teaism – a term Kakuzō coined – taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity, which can be seen in Japanese art and architecture. Looking back at the evolution of the Japanese tea ceremony, Kakuzō argues that Teaism, in itself, is one of the profound universal remedies that two parties could sit down to. Where the West had scoffed at Eastern religion and morals, it held Eastern tea ceremonies in high regard.
With a new introduction, this is an exquisitely produced edition of a classic text made using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques. Surely it’s time for tea.
View full description
View less description
publisher
Amber Books LtdSpecifications
Books
Number of Pages
96
Publication Date
2021-10-14
View more specifications
View less specifications
Customers