Sunday Book Review: “The Book of Tea”
In the early 20th Century a Japanese art expert named Okakura Kakuzo wrote a slim volume called “The Book of Tea†wherein he attempted to bridge the cultural gap between East and West. He used the Japanese tea ceremony as a medium for explaining some of Japan’s less well-understood aesthetics and cultural values at a time when Japan was trying to “westernize†itself as quickly as possible. Read more [...]