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For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of ... More

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Examines the five-centuries-old tea ceremony, which is considered the epitome of Japanese civilization

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The Book of Tea has served for more than a century as one of the most perceptive introductions to Asian life and thought in English. Publication of ... More

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The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later ... More

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With its emphasis on ritual and aesthetics, the ceremonial presentation of tea provides a fascinating introduction to many aspects of Japanese ... More

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The author follows tea drinking practices from their arrival in Japan to the time of Rikyu, considering at each stage the relevant historical changes ... More

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In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of ... More

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In Japan, serving tea is an art and a spiritual discipline. As an art, the tea ceremony is an occasion to appreciate the clean lines of the tea room ... More

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From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has ... More

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The first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea ... More

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Chanoyu, widely known as the tea ceremony, developed in Japan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In it, such ordinary acts of daily life as ... More

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"Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, ... More

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