The Book of Tea
$24.26
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2010
Summary
First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much more - introduced by Christopher Benfey.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191843 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141191848 |
| Author: | Kakuzo Okakura, Christopher Benfey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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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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