The book of tea / Kakuzō Okakura; introduction by Sam Hamill.
ISBN:
9781570628283
Title:
The book of tea / Kakuzō Okakura; introduction by Sam Hamill.
Author:
Okakura, Kakuzō, 1862-1913.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Shambhala ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Shambhala, 2001.
Physical Description:
94 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Shambhala classics
Series Title:
Shambhala classics
General Note:
Hamill, Sam.
Subject Term:
Format:
Books
Publication Date:
2001
Publication Information:
Boston : Shambhala, 2001.
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Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 394.15 OKA | Recreational Reading | 1 | Standard shelving location | Searching... Unknown |
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Summary
Summary
This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplicity of Asian culture. The author celebrates the Way of Tea from its ancient origins in Chinese Taoism to its culmination in the Zen discipline known as the Japanese tea ceremony--an enchanting practice bringing together such arts as architecture, pottery, and flower arranging to create an experience that delights the senses, calms the mind, and refreshes the spirit.
Combining the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of tea, The Book of Tea has been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1906.
Author Notes
Kakuzo Okakura an assistant curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
Table of Contents
| The Cup of Humanity | p. 1 |
| Tea ennobled into Teaism, a religion of aestheticism, the adoration of the beautiful among everyday facts | |
| Teaism developed among both nobles and peasants | |
| The mutual misunderstanding of the New World and the Old | |
| The Worship of Tea in the West | |
| Early records of Tea in European writing | |
| The Taoists' version of the combat between Spirit and Matter | |
| The modern struggle for wealth and power | |
| The Schools of Tea | p. 17 |
| The three stages of the evolution of Tea | |
| The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea, representative of the Tang, the Sung, and the Ming dynasties of China | |
| Luwuh, the first apostle of Tea | |
| The Tea-ideals of the three dynasties | |
| To the latter-day Chinese Tea is a delicious beverage, but not an ideal | |
| In Japan Tea is a religion of the art of life | |
| Taoism and Zennism | p. 33 |
| The connection of Zennism with Tea | |
| Taoism, and its successor Zennism, represent the individualistic trend of the Southern Chinese mind | |
| Taoism accepts the mundane and tries to find beauty in our world of woe and worry | |
| Zennism emphasizes the teachings of Taoism | |
| Through consecrated meditation may be attained supreme self-realisation | |
| Zennism, like Taoism, is the worship of Relativity | |
| Ideal of Teaism a result of the Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life | |
| Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical | |
| The Tea-Room | p. 51 |
| The tea-room does not pretend to be other than a mere cottage | |
| The simplicity and purism of the tea-room | |
| Symbolism in the construction of the tea-room | |
| The system of its decoration | |
| A sanctuary from the vexations of the outer world | |
| Art Appreciation | p. 73 |
| Sympathetic communion of minds necessary for art appreciation | |
| The secret understanding between the master and ourselves | |
| The value of suggestion | |
| Art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us | |
| No real feeling in much of the apparent enthusiasm to-day | |
| Confusion of art with archaeology | |
| We are destroying art in destroying the beautiful in life | |
| Flowers | p. 87 |
| Flowers our constant friends | |
| The Master of Flowers | |
| The waste of Flowers among Western communities | |
| The art of floriculture in the East | |
| The Tea-Masters and the Cult of Flowers | |
| The Art of Flower Arrangement | |
| The adoration of the Flower for its own sake | |
| The Flower-Masters | |
| Two main branches of the schools of Flower Arrangement, the Formalistic and the Naturalesque | |
| Tea-Masters | p. 107 |
| Real appreciation of art only possible to those who make of it a living influence | |
| Contributions of the Tea-Masters to art | |
| Their influence on the conduct of life | |
| The Last Tea of Rikiu |
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