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Mermaidscribe,
S> The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura is available via eBay here:
Actually, the Book of Tea by Okakura is available online for FREE all the time!
Also, the same one you are selling can be bought for the cover price of $4.95 at any bookseller online or otherwise all the time, but I guess $7+ is worth it when you factor in the time it took you to spam this group AND post it to eBay.
Take Care!
- Dominic
From the site at
(quote) THE BOOK OF TEA
BY OKAKURA-KAKUZO
NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1919 COPYRIGHT 1906, BY FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY
To JOHN LAFARGE Sensei
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE CUP OF HUMANITY Tea ennobled into Teaism, a religion of ecstheticism, the adoration of the beautiful among everyday facts ? Teaism developed among both nobles and peasants ? The mutual misunderstanding of the New World and the Old ? The Worship of Tea in the West ? Early records of Tea in European writing ? The Taoists' version of the combat between Spirit and Matter ? The modern struggle for wealth and power.
CHAPTER II. THE SCHOOLS OF TEA The three stages of the evolution of Tea ? The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea, representative of the Tang, the Sung, and the Ming dynasties of China ? Luwuh, the first apostle of Tea ? The Tea-ideals of the three dynasties ? To the latter-day Chinese Tea is a delicious beverage, but not an ideal ? In Japan Tea is a religion of the art of life.
CHAPTER III. TAOISM AND ZENNISM The connection of Zennism with Tea ? Taoism, and its successor Zennism, represent the individualistic trend of the Southern Chinese mind ? Taoism accepts the mundane and tries to find beauty in our world of woe and worry ? Zennism emphasizes the teachings of Taoism ? Through consecrated meditation may be attained supreme self-realisation ? Zennism, like Taoism, is the worship of Relativity ? Ideal of Teaism a result of the Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life ? Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical.
CHAPTER IV. THE TEA-ROOM The tea-room does not pretend to be other than a mere cottage ? The simplicity and purism of the tea-room ? Symbolism in the construction of the tea-room ? The system of its decoration ? A sanctuary from the vexations of the outer world.
CHAPTER V. ART APPRECIATION Sympathetic communion of minds necessary for art appreciation ? The secret understanding between the master and ourselves ? The value of suggestion ? Art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us ? No real feeling in much of the apparent enthusiasm to-day ? Confusion of art with archaeology ? We are destroying art in destroying the beautiful in life.
CHAPTER VI. FLOWERS Flowers our constant friends ? The Master of Flowers ? The waste of Flowers among Western communities ? The art of floriculture in the East ? The Tea-Masters and the Cult of Flowers ? The Art of Flower Arrangement ? The adoration of the Flower for its own sake ? The Flower-Masters ? Two main branches of the schools of Flower Arrangement, the Formalistic and the Naturalesque.
CHAPTER VII. TEA-MASTERS Real appreciation of art only possible to those who make of it a living influence ? Contributions of the Tea-Masters to art ? Their influence on the conduct of life ? The Last Tea of Rikiu. (unquote)
That version has some editor notes which is useful in understanding the text. But if you want to read the whole text for free, you can see it online here:
$6.00 to ship a book?! It's sellers like this that turned me off of ebay! That's one way to guarantee a profit even if someone only bids $0.99 on your item. I suppose as long as people will pay it...
you got to factor in the "price of gas", "time spent" to go to the post office, park, stand in line, billed @ 50$/h ('cos getting a degree in ebay'ing req'd a 4year bachelor training program... sold on TV).
...don't even have to lick stamps anymore.
In addition to all the arguments made here, this is an extremely common book. I find it in used book stores all the time. Heck, I live in a rural dairy area and I managed to find a hardbound copy in a nice slipcase (a 28th printing from 1980) for fifty cents at a local garage sale!
I could understand paying exorbitant shipping prices for a rare or out of print book, like an English translation of Lu Yu's Ch'a Ching, but this is ridiculous!
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