by Kakuzō Okakura · Livros Cotovia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789728028718
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«O Livro do Chá» is Kakuzō Okakura's essay, published by Livros Cotovia in paperback (88 pages, in Portuguese).
Okakura reflects on the Japanese tea ceremony as a path to understanding art and life. Tea is not aestheticism: it is an ethical, hygienic and economic practice that values cleanliness and simplicity, and a moral geometry before the universe. The work embodies Eastern democracy: taste as an accessible aristocracy.
Work originally published in 1906 under the title The Book of Tea; the cover indicates the Série Oriental collection.
For readers interested in Eastern philosophy, art, history and Japanese culture, with special attention to Zen aesthetics.
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.
