Friday, February 18, 2005

The Glocal Book:"The Book of Tea" by Okakura Kakuzou(Tenshin)-No.65

The Tea-Room; Everything is Absolutely Clean


「Even in the daytime the light in the room is subdued, for the low eaves of the slanting roof admit but few of the sun's rays.

Everything is sober in tint from the celing to the floor ; the guests themselves have carefully chosen garments of unobtructive colours.

The mellowness of age is over all, everything suggestive of recent acquirement being tabooed save only the one note of contrast furnished by the bamboo dipper and the linen napkin, both immaculately white and new.

However faded the tea-room and the tea-equipage may seem, everything is absolutely clean.

Not a particle of dust will be found in the darkest corner, for if any exists the host is not a tea-master」
(From the Book of Tea-The Tea-Room, pp.63-64, Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan)

In the midst of city, imagine you are in the dark corner of absolutely clean Tea-Room without a particle of dust.

Do you will feel free or nervous?


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