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By author: Kakuzo Okakura
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Number of Pages:
176
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Dimensions:
6 X 9 Inches (US)
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Original publication year:
1906
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ISBN:
978-1-4290-1279-9
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Series:
Cooking in America
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Rating: 
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Paperback
• Kakuzo Okakura's most famous book
• Influential in shaping Western understanding of East Asian tradition
• A classic
"Written in English by a Japanese scholar in 1906, ""The Book of Tea"" is an elegant attempt to explain the philosophy of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, with its Taoist and Zen Buddhist roots, to a Western audience in clear and simple terms. One of the most widely-read English works about Japan, it had a profound influence on western undertsanding of East Asian tradition."