The Book of Tea
Okakura Kakuzō 岡倉覚三（天心） · 1863 – 1913
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Written in English in Boston, this short book uses the tea room and its ritual to explain to Western readers a whole Asian sense of taste: Taoist emptiness, Zen simplicity, the beauty of the imperfect and unfinished. It generalises freely and has a gentle polemical edge, but it remains one of the most graceful introductions to that sensibility.