The Book of Tea: A Quick Read edition
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This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.
- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours
- Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes
The Book of Tea is a long essay written by Okakura Kakuzo in 1906, which links the role of chado (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things, the most important of which were simplicity and humility. Okakura believed that this aesthetic should inform everything from the arts and architecture to daily life and was already informing them in Japan. The book also discusses topics such as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-der-Welt-sein (being-in-the-worldness) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy. The Book of Tea has been cited as an important influence on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
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This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.
- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours
- Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes
The Book of Tea is a long essay written by Okakura Kakuzo in 1906, which links the role of chado (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things, the most important of which were simplicity and humility. Okakura believed that this aesthetic should inform everything from the arts and architecture to daily life and was already informing them in Japan. The book also discusses topics such as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-der-Welt-sein (being-in-the-worldness) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy. The Book of Tea has been cited as an important influence on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Kakuzô Okakura
Kakuzô Okakura (1862–1913) est un érudit japonais, figure majeure de la modernisation de l’esthétique japonaise et protecteur du patrimoine culturel traditionnel. Formé aux cultures occidentale et orientale, il a écrit plusieurs ouvrages pour faire découvrir les valeurs de la culture sino-japonaise aux Occidentaux. *Le Livre du thé*, son œuvre la plus célèbre, reste un pont entre l’Orient et l’Occident, mêlant profondeur philosophique et accessibilité.
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