The book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura)

This book is in german!

Kakuzo Okakura's legendary book of tea appeared for the first time in 1906 and is a classic when Japanese tea culture is mentioned.

The tea ceremony is not just the preparation, the tea, the room, but also the refinement of the senses, the perfection of the form, the rhythm of the movements which make the ceremony a work of art. "Teeism", Okakura calls the philosophy of tea, and illustrates how Japan became a cult as early as the eighth century, and how he took his triumph over the world from there. Kakuzo Okakura was born in 1862 as the son of a wealthy samurai family in Yokohama. After completing the imperial university in Tokyo, he committed himself to the preservation of Japanese culture. He died in 1913. Okakura's most famous book is now being reissued in the Island Library with the adorable illustrations by Alexandra Klobouk and Eva Gonçalves.

From the Japanese and with an afterword by Horst Hammitzsch.
With illustrations by Alexandra Klobouk and Eva Gonçalves

Published: 12.09.2016
Island Library 1423
Hardcover, 100 pages
ISBN: 978-3-458-19423-1