The book of tea

By Okakura Kakuzo

Subjects: Maîtres du thé, Civilisation, Cooking & Food, New Age, Fonctions sociales, Tea, Japan, social life and customs, Thé, Cérémonie du thé, Nonfiction, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Culture traditionnelle, Japanese tea ceremony, Eastern, Chadō, Cérémonie japonaise du thé, Fiction, Social life and customs, Theeceremonie, Boissons, Classic Literature, Japan -- Social life and customs, Philosophie, Philosophy

Description: Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.