A very good book

I am currently reading "The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in

18th Century Kyoto" by Baisao (the Tea Seller) and Norman Waddell (the translator) and it is very good, I recommend it. The life story and the poems of the Old Tea Seller would already make it worth reading but in addition the notes at the end provide a lot of information on the early history of Sencha (leaf tea) in Japan that I have not seen before (not being a specialist, perhaps . . .). Published very beautifully by Counterpoint, ISBN 1582434131 it might be worth noting that Amazon.com are offering a much bigger discount than Barnes & Noble . . . I wonder if anyone can say more about the early history of Sencha and what is new in the information offered here?
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Brother Anthony
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I've seen it before but have not read it, I just added it to my next order so it will be a week or so before I get to it. I'm interested to see what it has to say about Sencha, but even moreso I think it is pretty neat that someone took the time to piece together all of the info on "The Tea Seller." I look forward to it.

Sadly my wife (a teacher) brought home the "Zen Shorts" childrens books for me to check out recently and I was never so disappointed and appalled at an attempt to make Zen Koans/Taoist tales mainstream. They are just butchered and retold in the most heavy handed and inelegant way imaginable. Ugh. Yet it seems to be all the rage and earning awards like they are going out of style. Hopefully this can cleanse my mind from that debacle. Thanks for the heads up.

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

The book is really good. It contains lot of information that is ver useful. I got this one and it helped lot of times to find some answer

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smarter

The same thread will do to announce the publication of an issue of Kyoto Journal (number 71) devoted entirely to tea. As always, it is visually stunning and extremely well produced. The editorial decisions were entrusted to the Tea Arts Institute in California and the contents are all very interesting, quite a few pieces being extracted from recently published books. The only complaint we in Korea have (a major one, of course) is that the said Institute has decided that Korean tea is not worth mentioning, and duly does not mention it. Lauren Deutsch's review of our book about the Korean Way of Tea is included among the additional materials available online, but not in the printed version. Ah well . . . at least a few poems I translated got in, but they are not about tea!

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It's definitely worth getting

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Brother Anthony

I have one Korean tea called King Green which I posted about previously. A nice issue worth tracking down. If you meet a tea master on the road buy him a cup of coffee.

Jim

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netstuff

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