The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
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The Book of Tea
Penguin Classics

Author: Kakuzo Okakura

Narrator: Sadao Ueda

Unabridged: 2 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2019


Synopsis

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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."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Celeste on May 01, 2024

Uma viagem inesperada aos cerimoniais do chá no Japão ou à aristocracia do gosto. Já em 1711, dizia o Spectator que o chá não tinha a arrogância do vinho, a autoconsciência do café, nem a inocência simplória do cacau. O chaísmo é a habilidade de ocultar a beleza, permitindo que a descubramos, e de sug......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle (Reading Rampage) on June 10, 2019

This book is about so much more than tea. This is about how something as seemingly simple as a beverage can define a culture’s history, philosophy and aesthetics. When it was originally published in 1906, the East was just opening to the West, and they had few cultural bridges to use to form bonds a......more

Goodreads review by Sinem A. on July 29, 2019

Aslında Bolano'nun Vahşi Hafiyelerin'den Çay Kitabı'na nasıl geldiğimi anlatmam lazım sanırım. Okuyanlar bilir; Vahşi Hafiyeler'de edebiyatçılardan bahsettiği kısımlar vardır. Orada daha önce de adına aşina olduğum ve merak da ettiğim Ezra Pound'dan da bahseder. Hafiyelerin peşinde hafiyeliğe özenip......more