STONE BRIDGE PRESS The Book Of Tea

About The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea was written by Kakuzo Okakura.

This brief essay on tea drinking, its history, restorative powers, and rich connection to Japanese culture. Okakura felt that “Teaism” was at the very center of Japanese life and helped shape everything from art, aesthetics, and an appreciation for the ephemeral to architecture, design, gardens, and painting. In tea could be found one source of what Okakura felt was Japan’s and, by extension, Asia’s unique power to influence the world.

This book contains both a history of tea in Japan and lucid, wide-ranging comments on the schools of tea, Zen, Taoism, flower arranging, and the tea ceremony and its tea-masters.