The Book of Tea: Penguin Classics Audiobook (Free)

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This Penguin Classic is conducted by Japanese actor Sadao Ueda, known for his appearances in Spectre, London has Fallen and WHAT WE SHOULD Did on Our Vacation.

For a generation adjusting painfully towards the demands of today’s industrial and commercial society, Asia found represent an alternative vision of the nice life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Reserve of Tea was originally written in English and sought to handle the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. Super fast of inspiration, Okakura saw that the formal tea party as utilized in New England was a faraway cousin of the Japanese tea ceremony, and that East and Western world had therefore “fulfilled in the tea-cup.”