The Book of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura
For Kakuzo Okakura, tea was not a drink. It was culture, it was art, it was life itself. In his 1906 masterpiece The Book of Tea, he barely talks about making tea, instead voyaging far afield into philosophy, religion, architecture, environmentalism, history, and the strained state of East-West affairs. He rambles in a vivid, endlessly quotable style, calling forth a world in which even the boiling of tea-water was a ceremony, and the drinking of tea could decide the course of nations.
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