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*''Published: [[1906]]''
''The Book of Tea'' by [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]] was published in English in [[1906]] as the first book to introduce Japanese [[tea culture]] to Western readers. It remains widely sold and profoundly influential today.
The book asserts a fundamental dichotomy between Japanese culture and Western aesthetics, and asserts that while all Japanese understand tea intuitively, whether they practice tea or not - because the aesthetics of tea, Okakura suggests, are infused into Japanese life - Westerners cannot be expected to ever truly understand it.
The book was published in Japanese translation in 1929, providing for Japanese readers something of a primer on how to explain tea to Westerners.
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==References==
*Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 193.
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[[Category:Arts and Architecture]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
''The Book of Tea'' by [[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô]] was published in English in [[1906]] as the first book to introduce Japanese [[tea culture]] to Western readers. It remains widely sold and profoundly influential today.
The book asserts a fundamental dichotomy between Japanese culture and Western aesthetics, and asserts that while all Japanese understand tea intuitively, whether they practice tea or not - because the aesthetics of tea, Okakura suggests, are infused into Japanese life - Westerners cannot be expected to ever truly understand it.
The book was published in Japanese translation in 1929, providing for Japanese readers something of a primer on how to explain tea to Westerners.
{{stub}}
==References==
*Rebecca Corbett, ''Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (2018), 193.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Arts and Architecture]]
[[Category:Historical Documents]]