The Book of Tea
- Author Kakuzo Okakura
- Narrator Sadao Ueda
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 2 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre East Asian and Indian philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology.
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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."
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