The Glocal Book:"The Book of Tea" by Okakura Kakuzou(Tenshin)-No18

Fine Earth Newly Swept by Rain

「The "Chaking" consists of three volumes and ten chapters. In the first chapter Luwuh treats of the nature of the tea-plant, in the second of the implements for gathering the leaves, in the third
of the selection of the leaves. According to him the best quality of the leaves must have "creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain."」(From The Book of Tea-The Scools of Tea, pp.22, Charles E, Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont-Tokyo, Japan)
Just,Enjoy the beatiful lylic poetry like sentences and expression. This is the oriental way of lylical descriptoin of feelings even scientific matters.
It is surprising that Luwuh described all round Book about Tea at eighth century alredy.

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