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".

Okakura Kakuzō, also known as Okakura Tenshin, was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and belie