Book Of Tea - Hardcover

..".The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer ..".The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer ..".The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer ."..The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer .,."The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer .,."The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer ., ."The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." --TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." --New Age Retailer , .."The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." -TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." -New Age Retailer ..."The best introduction to Oriental life and perception in English." -TEA A Magazine "The Book of Tea is beautifully designed and will make an excellent small gift, especially since tea has become fashionable." -New Age Retailer

Making an effort in cultural bridge-building between East and West, this work is a text on the meaning and practice of the tea ceremony. Way of Tea was perceived as a form of spiritual culture - a discipline that transforms itself into an 'art of life' rooted in the religious values of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Written in English in 1906 (exactly 100 years ago), this seminal text on the meaning and practice of the tea ceremony was a pioneering effort in cultural bridge-building between East and West. Okakura perceived cha-no-yu - literally Way of Tea' - as'