# The Book of Tea

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- Authors: [Okakura Kakuzō](https://www.bookquiver.com/okakura-kakuzo)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-272-9
- Published: 2010-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a flash of inspiration, Okakura saw that the formal tea party as practiced in New England was a distant cousin of the Japanese tea ceremony, and that East and West had thus " met in the tea-cup.