Essays

The Book of Tea

by Kakuzō Okakura

Written in English in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzō, a Japanese scholar then working at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It is about tea, and through tea about Taoism, Zen, flowers and the beauty of things left imperfect. It is short enough to finish before the pot goes cold.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 1 hr 15 min

Where to find it

The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #769. In the public domain in the United States.