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The Book of Tea

Okakura’s 1906 meditation on Teaism — the Japanese tea ceremony as a religion of aestheticism rooted in Taoism and Zen, a worship of the imperfect amid the sordid facts of everyday existence.

7 chapters · about 90 min read · 63 commentary notes

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