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Zen and the art of tea--the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life

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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    A Paperback / softback by Kakuzo Okakura, Christopher Benfey

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 September 2010
      ISBN-13 9780141191843
      978-0141191843
      ISBN-10 0141191848
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society East Asian and Indian philosophy Social and cultural anthropology Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Zen and the art of tea--the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life

      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.

      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide author

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