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The Book of Tea

by Kakuzo Okakura

The aesthetics of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and its connection to the Japanese world-view as a whole.

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. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

I. The Cup of Humanity

II. The Schools of Tea.

III. Taoism and Zennism

IV. The Tea-Room

V. Art Appreciation

VI. Flowers

VII. Tea-Masters

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