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reading (The Book of Tea)
Aug. 29th, 2006 06:03 pmThe other day at the book shop I found "The Book of Tea." It's a slim volume, first published in 1906, which covers various topics around tea and the Japanese tea ceremony.
It's a combination of history and romance. Yes, romance. The language Kakuzo uses when talking about tea drips with such lushness and boils with such passion it can only be considered romantic. Such incredible prose all the nearby poetry starts getting nervous, shuffling its feet, and coughing in an embarrassed manner.
It's not an instructional book. If you want to learn how-to, you'll have to find another. But it's fun to drink in the prose and learn a bit of the background of tea and the tea ceremony. It's available on Project Gutenberg so go indulge yourself.
31. Kakuzo Okakura "The Book of Tea"
It's a combination of history and romance. Yes, romance. The language Kakuzo uses when talking about tea drips with such lushness and boils with such passion it can only be considered romantic. Such incredible prose all the nearby poetry starts getting nervous, shuffling its feet, and coughing in an embarrassed manner.
It's not an instructional book. If you want to learn how-to, you'll have to find another. But it's fun to drink in the prose and learn a bit of the background of tea and the tea ceremony. It's available on Project Gutenberg so go indulge yourself.
31. Kakuzo Okakura "The Book of Tea"
