Publisher's Synopsis
"Tea ... is a religion of the art of life."
In The Book of Tea, Okakura links the role of teaism to the cultural and aestheticaspects of Japanese life. The book was addressed to a western audience and it wasoriginally written in English and is considered by many to be one of the great Englishtea classics.
Kakuzo Okakura (1862-1913) was a Japanese scholar born in Yokohama whocontributed to the development of arts in Japan.