- Japanese tea ceremony, Social life and customs, Tea, Philosophy
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.
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- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Okakura Kakuzō
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 70
- Publisher
- Nikken Shuppan, Constable, ReadHowYouWant.com
- Editions
- 476
- Language
- Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, gre
- ISBN
- 9781541314559
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“Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.”
*In this Japanese name, the family name is Okakura.* Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三, February 14, 1862 – September 2, 1913; also known as 岡倉 天心 Okakura Tenshin) was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan. Outside of Japan, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of The Book of Tea.
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