by Okakura Kakuzo · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458321125
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«Das Buch vom Tee» is Okakura Kakuzo's essay on Japanese aesthetics, published by Insel Verlag in a German-language paperback edition.
Okakura reflects on the tea ceremony as a path to understanding Japanese culture and its ideal of harmony. The work links this ritual to Zen, Taoism, art and spirituality, and argues that the simplicity of tea permeates the aesthetics and everyday life of Japan.
German edition with translation and epilogue by Horst Hammitzsch, photographs of Japan and an essay by I. Schaarschmidt-Richter. The original 1906 work is titled «The Book of Tea».
For those seeking an introduction to Eastern philosophy, Japanese culture and the art of the tea ceremony.
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.
