by Wenceslau de Moraes · Padrões Culturais · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789728721817
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«O culto do chá» is Wenceslau de Moraes's essay on the Japanese tea ceremony, published by Padrões Culturais in paperback.
Wenceslau de Moraes portrays the place of tea in Japanese life and shows how the ceremony transcends the act of drinking to become a cult, an art, and a sensory pleasure. He draws on Kakuzo Okakura's definition in «El libro del té» (1906): tea has a subtle charm, without the arrogance of wine or the self-consciousness of coffee.
The work was originally published in 1905 and this Portuguese edition is from 2007; it falls within the field of the Japanese tea ceremony.
Aimed at enthusiasts of Japanese culture, the tea ceremony, and the aesthetics of ritual.
Wenceslau José de Souza de Moraes, in modern orthography Venceslau José de Sousa de Morais, was a Portuguese writer whose works were steeped in orientalism and exoticism, particularly the culture of Japan. He has been compared to Lafcadio Hearn, a contemporary who settled in Japan but wrote in English. A translator of Haiku, his verse was also influenced by Symbolism.
