by Kakuzo Okakura · ELA (EDICIONES LIBRERIA ARGENTINA) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489836402
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The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura is a work that explores the Japanese tea ceremony, its origin, history, and the rituals that compose it. Through the description of the tea room and its customs, the author raises reflections on how to appreciate art and live life. The text intertwines explanations about Eastern philosophical currents such as Zen, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, analyzing Eastern artistic concepts. This work is presented as an introduction to the Eastern concept of life and art, where austerity, wisdom, beauty, and simplicity converge in Japanese culture.
Okakura Kakuzō , also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs. Outside Japan, he is chiefly renowned for The Book of Tea: A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906). Written in English, and in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War, it decried Western caricaturing of the Japanese, and of Asians more generally, and expressed the fear that Japan gained respect only to the extent that it adopted the barbarities of Western militarism.
