The Book of Tea

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781425000530
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 1425000533
Label: ReadHowYouWant
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 116
Publication Date: October 01, 2006
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Release Date: October 01, 2006
Studio: ReadHowYouWant

---

Related Items:

• 20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs
• The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook: A Guide to Enjoying the World's Best Teas
• The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
• Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
• In Praise of Shadows
• see more

Alternate Versions: Click to Display

Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display

---

Editorial Review:

Product Description:


ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.



A beautiful narration on how tea became much more than just a casual beverage in Japanese culture. Author’s informal style of narration takes us into the beauty of Japanese minds refined by tea traditon of Japan and the lure of Budhisim upon which the tea philosophy is based. It has served as a seminal cultural bridge to Asian life. An informative treat for tea drinkers!



To find more titles in your format, Search in Books using EasyRead and the size of the font that makes reading easier and more enjoyable for you.



Amazon.com Review:
That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:

Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.

A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk

---

Books

Kindle Fire, Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi In association with amazon.com Product price accurate as of 02/23/2012 04:51 EST and is subject to change. $199.00