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The Book of Tea

Author
Kakuzo Okakura
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
1 hour 49 minutes
ISBN
9781802568868
Published
9 September 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Tea
  • Zen
  • Taoism
  • Japanese life
  • Teaism
  • simplicity
  • Tea ceremony
  • Japan

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Description

Okakura's meditation on the Japanese way of tea as art, etiquette, and spirit: harmony, humility, and beauty that accepts impermanence. Cultural philosophy you can use at a quiet table. Spoken as when a cup becomes a school for seeing.

Author

Kakuzo Okakura (1863–1913), also known as Okakura Tenshin, was a Japanese scholar and art critic who defended traditional culture in the Meiji age of rapid Westernisation. The Book of Tea, written in English, presents tea ceremony as a philosophy of harmony, respect, and the simple life — and quietly rebukes Western caricatures of Asia. Okakura remains a bridge: aesthetics as a way of seeing, and of pouring.

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