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Tea as a drink was first consumed in China and the earliest extant mention of tea in literature is the Classic of Poetry, although the ideogram used in these texts can also designate a variety of plan
Lu Yu: The Classic of Tea
The Book of Tea
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The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō is a long 1906 essay linking the role of chadō to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life and protesting Western caricatures of "the East".
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…Sen no Rikyū (千利休) (1522 – April 21, 1591): Southern Record (南方録). Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三): The Book of Tea (originally written in English by Okakura), 1906. A Nice Cup of Tea essay by George Orwell, 1946…
Title page of the American edition