The Glocal Book:"The Book of Tea" by Okakura Kakuzou(Tenshin)-No.29

The Culmination of the Tea-ideals in Japan

「It is the Japanese tea ceremony that we see the culmination of tea-ideals.
Our successful resistance of the Mongol invasion in 1281 had enabled us to carry on the Sung movement so disastrously cut off in China itself through the nomadic inroad.
Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
The beverage grew to be an excuse for the workship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundance.」(From the Book of Tea-the School of Tea, p.33, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont-Tokyo,Japan)
The Japanese Tea-ceremony is not just drinking tea beverage according to certain complicated manual process. It is not the kinds of manner.
It is the Art of Life with the joint equal collaboration with the host and the guests.
Yet, you should never forget the supreme Tea-ideals is just sitting down to drink tea. That is the philosophy of Tea.

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Picture: Dark Green-Iron Glazed Crock by Keitoku Kato