by Kakuzo Okakura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485403004
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«El llibre del te» is an essay by Kakuzo Okakura on the Japanese tea ceremony, published by Altafulla in 1978 in paperback (75 pages).
Okakura explains the importance of tea in the East, especially in China and Japan, and turns it into a guiding thread for approaching Buddhist thought, art, and traditional Japanese culture. With anecdotes, legends, and comparisons, the author shows a world far from the Western one, built around aesthetics, religion, and the tea ceremony.
Translation by Carles Soldevila and illustrations by Will Faber. Work originally published in English in 1906 as The Book of Tea.
A classic for readers interested in Japanese culture, Buddhist thought, and the history of tea.
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.
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