
The Book of Tea
Penguin Classics
Author: Kakuzo Okakura
Narrator: Sadao Ueda
Unabridged: 2 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 09/26/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy
Synopsis
This Penguin Classic is performed by Japanese actor Sadao Ueda, known for his appearances in Spectre, London has Fallen and What We Did on Our Holiday.
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."
