The Glocal Book: "The Book of Tea" by Okakura Kakuzo(Tenshin)

I believe "The Book of Tea" is the book of Tea Cult and one of

the best book to introduce Japan and/or Asian spiritual and artistic

understanding to world wide countries.

The book was first published in U.S.A. in 1906 and translated to many languages including Japanese.

Okakura Kakuzou is also known as the name of Okakura Tenshin.

Okakura met American teacher,Ernest F. Fenollosa who wrote the book of "Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art", when he was the student of Tokyo Imperial University.

They travelled around all Japanese areas such as Kyoto and Nara to collaborate to search Japanese arts in the early days after Meiji Restoration.Okakura understood to recognize the importance of Japanese and/or oriental arts.

Okakura also worked as founder of Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko,now we call Tokyo Art Univ.and was the Principal of Japanes-style painting.

The art association, Nippon Bijutsuin was organized by Okakura.

Famous Japanese painters such as Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Syunso were his students.

He made efforts to be recognized the importance of Japanese and/or oriental arts and philosophy and battled against the Westernizing faction and/or foreign treands in the early days after the Meiji Restoration.

Okakura worked at the Boston Museum as Adrisor and Curator of the Department of Chinease and Japanese Art.

His first publication in English was his assay "The Ideals of the East" (1904).

As mentioned above, he understood the importance of Japanese culture and made efforts to protect and to let understanding at the basis of world wide.

The facts mean Okakura Tenshin was the glocalist since the early days after the Meiji Restoration.

Therefore, I would like to introduce you the interesting parts of "The Book of Tea" in the following this Blog pages.

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