Kippo News: HISTORIC KANSAI: See legacies of master of tea ceremony Oribe to know of Japanese culture
Early summer is a time when the first tea of the season hits the market and brings joy to tea-loving Japanese people. Foreign visitors will be fortunate if they are invited to a tea ceremony, which will expose them to Japanese culture. But they may be perplexed at a tea ceremony, which most foreigners would find strange. Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913), a scholar of Japanese culture in the Meiji period who greatly contributed to the introduction of Japanese culture to the Western world, said in his English book "The Book of Tea," that "The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a teacup! He will say."...more...
