Annotated edition of 'The Book of Tea', by Okakura Kakuzo. Okakura Kakuzo's biography, biographical references of the historical characters in the book, chronology of Chinese dynasties, glossary and notes by Natalio Cardoso. Master work about Japanese aesthetics 'The Book of Tea' is not a treatise about tea ceremony, but an attempt to transmit to the western reader the way the Japanese aesthetical sense works, which, in their culture, is closely linked to Taoism and the soul of a whole civilisat