The Book of Tea
$25.00
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2010
Summary
The Book of Tea: A Classic Exploration of Eastern Aesthetics
For a generation struggling with modern industrial society, Asia offered an alternative vision: aesthetically austere, socially refined, and spiritually rich. The Book of Tea, now in Penguin Classics, delves into the art of tea and much more.
Originally written in English to resonate with Westerners, Okakura Kakuzō bridges cultural divides. He illuminates how the Japanese tea ceremony, with its formal eleg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191843 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141191848 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Kakuzo Okakura, Christopher Benfey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Kakuzo Okakura
Kakuzo Okakura was born in 1862 in Yokohama, Japan. In 1890, Okakura was one of the principal founders of the first Japanese fine-arts academy, Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (Tokyo School of Fine Arts) and a year later became the head, though he was later ousted from the school in an administrative struggle. Later, he also founded the Japan Art Institute with Hashimoto Gaho and Yokoyama Taikan. He was invited by William Sturgis Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1904 and became the first head of the Asian art division in 1910. He died in 1913.
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