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The Book Of Tea

How A Humble Brew Shaped Japanese Art, Architecture, Fashion, Flowers, And Philosophy

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The Book Of Tea

著者: Okakura Kakuzō
ナレーター: Charles Featherstone
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"Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage... Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence... It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect."

In this short but enlightenimg book, Okakura Kakuzo reveals that tea is a doorway to the soul of the East and the essence of Japanese art and culture. He traces tea's journey from Chinese medicine to Japanese ceremony. The essence of the journey is in the tea masters, who influence everything from architecture and home decor to fashion and social norms. The Sukiya tearoom, or Abode of Fancy, is "an oasis in the dreary waste of existence", intentionally simple and asymmetical, for "true beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete", .

Through the twin philosophies of Daoism and Zen, Okakura shows how tea infuses the art of living: how to arrange flowers as an offering, how to walk a garden path as a meditation, how to approach a masterpiece as one would "approach a great prince." "The truly beautiful must be always in it", whether in a single perfect flower plucked from a garden, a kettle that sings of distant seas, or a bowl that holds "the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself."

As Kakuzo says, "Let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things."
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