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The Book of Tea
The Floating Press 1906; US$ 7.99The Book of Tea discusses the impact of "Teaism" on all aspects of Japanese culture and life. Kakuzo elaborates on the relationship between tea ceremony and Zen and Taoism. He also talks about the tea masters and their contribution to the tea ceremony. Kakuzo spoke English from an early age, and so was able to make his writings accessible... more...
The Book of Tea
Double Dragon Publishing 2001; US$ 5.99Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates... more...
The Ideals of the East
Stone Bridge Press 2007; US$ 10.95The classic work on Japanese beauty and values as seen in Japanese art and culture more...
The Book of Tea
Stone Bridge Press 2007; US$ 9.95A timeless classic that points to tea as Asia's unique power to influence the world. more...
The Book of Tea
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times.In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile to Western audiences because Kakuzo was taught... more...
The Book of Tea
Penguin Books Ltd 2010; Not AvailableFor 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... more...
The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition
Tuttle Publishing 2000; US$ 26.95In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella Gardner. It was authored by Okakura Kakuzo , a Japanese philosopher, art expert, and curator. Little known at the time, Kakuzo would emerge as one of the great thinkers of the early 20th century,... more...
The Book of Tea
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 18.95In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella Gardner. It was authored by Okakura Kakuzo, a Japanese philosopher, art expert, and curator. Little known at the time, Kakuzo would emerge as one of the great thinkers of the early 20th century,... more...
The Book of Tea
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99A beautiful narration on how tea became much more than just a casual beverage in Japanese culture. Authors informal style of narration takes us into the beauty of Japanese minds refined by tea traditon of Japan and the lure of Budhisim upon which the tea philosophy is based. It has served as a seminal cultural bridge to Asian life. An informative... more...
The Book of Tea
Start Publishing LLC 2013; US$ 0.99The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo shows how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessible to Western audiences because, though Kakuzo was born and raised Japanese, he was trained from a young age to speak English. In this book he explains tea in the context of Zen and Taoism as well as the secular... more...









