O Livro do Chá, de Kakuzo Okakura.
O autor nos mostra que o chá, mais que uma bebida tradicional, é parte essencial da cultura do Japão. A cerimônia do chá representa a vida em toda sua pureza, harmonia e equilíbrio.
Trecho do livro:
The Cup of Humanity
"Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life."
O autor nos mostra que o chá, mais que uma bebida tradicional, é parte essencial da cultura do Japão. A cerimônia do chá representa a vida em toda sua pureza, harmonia e equilíbrio.
Trecho do livro:
The Cup of Humanity
"Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life."
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