Издания и произведения

Чай — неотъемлемая часть нашей повседневной жизни. Чашечка этого горячего напитка способна согреть в холодный день, подарить чувство уюта и принести душевное спокойствие. Но что мы знаем про его историю, традиции и философию? В «Книге чая» Окакура рассказывает об истории чая, чайных церемониях, школах и многом другом. Интерес к ней во всем мире не утихает уже более ста лет. Также в сборник вошла работа «Идеалы Востока: дух японского искусства», которая рассказывает о развитии и изменениях в искусстве Японии разных эпох.

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Anna Sherman and delightful illustrations by Sayuri Romei.
This short book, written in English by a Japanese scholar and artist, was first published in 1906 at a time when Japan was opening up to Western culture. In response to that, Okakura Kakuzo set out to explain the beauty and simplicity of Japanese daily life which was greatly inspired by teaism. He describes in detail the different aspects of the tea ceremony, how it was founded, the role of the tea masters, the architecture of the tea-room and the stages of making and serving the tea. He then goes on to explain the connection between Taoism and Zennism with tea and he also writes chapters on art appreciation and the art of flower arranging.

Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonization, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese art and culture by illuminating the spirit of the Japanese Tea Masters.

The Book of Tea doesn't focus on the Tea Ceremony itself, but the Zen Buddhist thought behind it known as the Way of Tea or Chado.

Kakuzo teaches us to listen to the language of flowers as well as the language of art.

His considerable charm is as apparent today as it was one hundred years ago as he introduces us to the aesthetic and culture of Japan.

This edition has a new foreword by Andrew Juniper who runs the Wabi-Sabi Art Gallery in West Sussex, England and an introduction by Liza Dalby, the first American woman to be fully trained as a geisha in the 70's.

In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony.

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.

2012 Reprint of 1956 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The "Book of Tea" by Okakura Kakuzo is a long essay linking the role of tea (Teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. Addressed to a western audience, it was originally written in English and is one of the great English Tea classics. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters. This edition contains a new forward and a biographical sketch augmenting the original 1906 edition.

"The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer, painting-our very literature-all have been subject to its influence. No student of Japanese culture could ever ignore its presence. It has permeated the elegance of noble boudoirs, and entered the abode of the humble. Our peasants have learned to arrange flowers, our meanest labourer to offer his salutation to the rocks and waters. In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. Again we stigmatise the untamed aesthete who, regardless of the mundane tragedy, runs riot in the springtide of emancipated emotions, as one "with too much tea" in him." -The Book of Tea 1906

Что мы знаем о чае? Мало кто задумывается об этом, попивая приятный и бодрящий напиток. А ведь история чая — это удивительная история, неразрывно связанная с национальной культурой, хозяйством и традициями многих народов мира. "Книга чая" японского писателя Какудзо Окакура привносит много неизвестного, а потому и удивительного в познание философии и культа потребления этого древнейшего напитка.

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a flash of inspiration, Okakura saw that the formal tea party as practiced in New England was a distant cousin of the Japanese tea ceremony, and that East and West had thus "met in the tea-cup."

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism-Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

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.

Что мы знаем о чае? Мало кто задумывается об этом, попивая приятный и бодрящий напиток. А ведь история чая - это удивительная история, неразрывно связанная с национальной культурой, хозяйством и традициями многих народов мира. "Книга чая" японского писателя Какудзо Окакура привносит много неизвестного, а потому и удивительного в познание философии и культа потребления этого древнейшего напитка.

The Book of Tea (茶の本 Cha no Hon) by Okakura Kakuzō (1906), is a long essay linking the role of tea (Teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. Addressed to a western audience, it was originally written in English and is one of the great English Tea classics. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzō argues that this…

Çay ve Zen felsefeye odaklanan ve Japon Çay Seremonisi’nin estetiğini anlatan bir tarih betimlemesidir. Bu kitapta Kakuzo, çayı hem Zen ile Taoculuk bağlamında anlatıyor, hem de çayın ve Japon yaşayışının asırlardır süren yönlerine değiniyor. Kitabı daha önemli kılan şey ise anlamlı bir hayatı nasıl yaşayacağımızı gösterebilme yetisine sahip olmasıdır. Doğa ve sadeliği, sanat ve güzelliği, bizi çevreleyen hayattaki küçük şeylerin içinde bulunan kavranması zor derinlikleri anlatıyor. Okakura Kakuzo şöyle der: Çay yolu, bizim sıradan günlük hayatımızda güzel olan şeye duyulan aşkta bulunur. Saflığı, harmoniyi, karşılıklı saygıyı, doğanın…

Окакура Какудзо – японский ученый и писатель, оказавший значительное влияние на современное искусство страны восходящего солнца! Узнайте всё о популярнейшем в мире напитке в его культовой работе! Чай – неотъемлемая часть нашей повседневной жизни. Чашечка этого горячего напитка способна согреть в холодный день, подарить чувство уюта и принести душевное спокойствие. Но что мы знаем про его историю, традиции и философию? В «Книге чая» Окакура рассказывает об истории чая, чайных церемониях, школах и многом другом. Интерес к ней во всем мире не утихает уже более ста лет. Также в сборник вошла работа «Идеалы Востока: дух японского…

Окакура Какудзо – японский ученый и писатель, оказавший значительное влияние на современное искусство страны восходящего солнца! Узнайте всё о популярнейшем в мире напитке в его культовой работе! Чай – неотъемлемая часть нашей повседневной жизни. Чашечка этого горячего напитка способна согреть в холодный день, подарить чувство уюта и принести душевное спокойствие. Но что мы знаем про его историю, традиции и философию? В «Книге чая» Окакура рассказывает об истории чая, чайных церемониях, школах и многом другом. Интерес к ней во всем мире не утихает уже более ста лет. Также в сборник вошла работа «Идеалы Востока: дух японского искусства»,…