Published by Penguin., London., 2010
ISBN 10: 0141191848 ISBN 13: 9780141191843
Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. xxi + 89pp. Paperback. "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'." (Publisher's description).