The Book of Tea Illustrated

The Book of Tea (茶の本, Cha no Hon) with the aid of using Okakura Kakuzo (1906) is an extended essay linking the position of chado (teaism) to the cultured and cultural factors of Japanese life.In 1906 in turn-of-the-century Boston, a small, esoteric book approximately tea changed into written with the goal of examining aloud with inside the well-known salon of Isabella Gardner, Boston's maximum infamous socialite. It changed into authored with the aid of using Okakura Kakuzo, a Japanese philosopher, artwork expert, and curator. Little regarded on the time, Kakuzo could become one of the awesome thinkers of the early twentieth century, a genius who changed into insightful, witty-and substantially chargeable for bridging Western and Eastern cultures. Okakura had been taught at a younger age to talk English and changed into greater than able to expressing to Westerners the nuances of tea and the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In The Book of Tea Classic Edition, he discusses such subjects as Zen and Taoism, however additionally the secular factors of tea and Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; maximum importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that tea-triggered simplicity affected the culture, artwork, and architecture of Japan.