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The Book of Tea

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The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo was drafted at the beginning of the 20th century. It was first released in 1906, and has later been reprinted several times. In the volume, Okakura presents the word Teaism and how Tea has changed almost all facets of Japanese tradition, thinking and existence. The volume is acclaimed to be available to Western readers for the reason that although Okakura was born and reared Japanese, he was educated at an early age to communicate in English; and would articulate it in his lifetime, becoming adept at speaking his thinking in the Western Mind. In his volume, he explicates the themes such as Zen and Taoism, but also the laical features of Tea and Japanese existence. The volume stresses how Teaism instructed the Japanese several aspects, more significantly, classicality.

Okakura Kakuzō also named as Okakura Tenshin was a Japanese academic who proffered to the advancement of creativity in Japan. Apart from Japan, he is mostly commemorated at present as the writer of The Book of Tea.

He was born in Yokohama to parents coming from Fukui, Okakura was taught English while studying in a school administered by Christian missionary, Dr. Curtis Hepburn. When he was 15 years old, he enrolled at Tokyo Imperial University, where he first encountered and taught under Harvard-learned educator Ernest Fenollosa. Then, Okakura co-established the newspaper Kokka. He was among the main formators of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, and thereafter became its principal, though he was thenceforth expelled from the school in an departmental conflict. From thereon, he also formed the Japan Art Institute with Hashimoto Gahō and Yokoyama Taikan. He was encouraged by William Sturgis Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and became the first leader of the art division in Asia.
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