by Kakuzō Okakura · Éditions Payot & Rivages · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782743613204
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«Le livre du thé» is the philosophical essay by Kakuzō Okakura, published by Rivages in paperback (100 pages, in French).
Written in 1906, this essay starts from the Japanese tea ceremony to delve into Asian aesthetics and thought. Okakura presents tea as a cult of beauty and imperfection, and traces its link with Taoism, Zen and the history of Japan, showing how the tea tradition condenses ideas of harmony, purity and simplicity.
This edition belongs to the Rivages poche / Petite Bibliothèque collection (no. 481). Translation by Gabriel Mourey. Published on October 15, 2004.
Recommended for readers interested in Eastern philosophy, art, history and Japanese culture.
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.
