Kakuzo Okakura's
Book of Tea,
written in 1906, is a modern classic about the Japanese tea ceremony.
Kakuzo Okakura was born in Japan and brought up in the strict moral
code of
the samurai. He later moved to New England and became curator
of East Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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Other books about the Japanese tea ceremony are Kaisen Iguchi's
Tea Ceremony,
Yusunari Kawabata's
Thousand
Cranes, Soshitu Sen's
Tea
Life, Tea Mind, and Senlo Tanaka's
The Tea Ceremony.