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A classic essay at the intersection of art, philosophy, and tea.
Kakuzo Okakuzo was a fascinating intellectual of Japan's Meiji period. He was bilingual in English and Japanese from an early age and spent his career bridging the gap between the two cultures. Originally written in English and addressed to the Western world, The Book of Tea introduced readers to "Teaism"—the practice of drinking tea and its relationship to religion, aesthetics, and ethics. But Okakuzo goes further, issuing a corrective to the West's orientalist caricature of Japan and the "East." A fascinating document of history and philosophy rumored to have inspired Heidegger's Being and Time.
|A classic essay at the intersection of art, philosophy, and tea.
Kakuzo Okakuzo was a fascinating intellectual of Japan's Meiji period. He was bilingual in English and Japanese from an early age and spent his career bridging the gap between the two cultures. Originally written in English and addressed to the Western world, The Book of Tea introduced readers to "Teaism"—the practice of drinking tea and its relationship to religion, aesthetics, and ethics. But Okakuzo goes further, issuing a corrective to the West's orientalist caricature of Japan and the "East." A fascinating document of history and philosophy rumored to have inspired Heidegger's Being and Time.
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