The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura

38 pages first pub 1906 (view editions)

nonfiction food and drink history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism-Teaism. Teaism is a cult ...

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