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Okakura Kakuzo

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Okakura Kakuzo, born on February 14, 1862, was a prominent Japanese art critic, writer, and translator. He is renowned for his profound understanding and extensive promotion of Japanese art. Okakura's major works include 'The Book of Tea' and 'The Art of the East', which have had a profound impact on the world's understanding of Eastern culture.

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“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

Art Today Reflection Condemning

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.”

Mind Artist Paint Canvas Spectators

Author:Okakura Kakuzo

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

Mind Light Joy Artist Emotion Creativity Sadness Shadow Lays Colour Canvas Masterpiece Pigment Chiaroscuro

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.”

Men Understanding Tea Incapable Truth And Beauty

Author:Okakura Kakuzo

“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.”

Men Philosophy Whole Shows Universe Views Moral Comfort Ethics Economics Mere Complexes Simplicity Point Of View Tea Proportion Geometry Cleanliness Hygiene Man And Nature

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“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 worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.”

Art Form Religion Produce Grew Worship Function Sacred Drinking Excuse Occasions Tea Purity Host Guests Mundane Refinement Beverages

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.”

Care Garden Gardening Garden Love Vegetable Garden

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“A garden is a friend you can visit any time.”

Garden Gardening Friendship Garden Garden Love

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“Friends are flowers in life's garden.”

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“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

Life Inspirational Art Life Is Change Inspiring Constant Surroundings Simple Life Adaptability Ability To Adapt

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“It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.”

Self Progress Realization Martial Arts Accumulation Judo

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“Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.”

Life Art Form Religion Drinking Tea Tea Drinking Drinking Tea

Book:The Book of Tea

Source: The Book of Tea

“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.”

Needs Art Hands Quality Painting Masters Tea Latter Works Of Art Good And Bad

Author:Okakura Kakuzo

“Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.”

Grew Medicine Tea Beverages

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

Life Feels Littles Running Greatness Appreciation Great Things Little Things

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.”

Done Moments Universe Rooms Events Perfection Tea Japan Ritual Transformed Communion Ceremony Small Rooms Tea Ceremony

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“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

Dream Beautiful Heard Delight Tea Afternoon Foolishness Fountain Tea Party Kettles Bamboo Evanescence

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“Tea...is a religion of the art of life.”

Art Tea Cups Of Tea Tea Time Iced Tea

Book:The Book of Tea

Source: The Book of Tea

“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.”

Facts Beautiful Order Social Existence Mystery Harmony Charity Everyday Tea Purity Mutual Cult Adoration Romanticism Social Order Tea Time

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.”

Inner Beauty Incomplete True Beauty

Book:The Book of Tea

Source: The Book of Tea

“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”

Sides Design Colour Thread Reverse Translations Treason Subtlety

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

Dream Beautiful Foolishness Tea Party Bamboo Evanescence

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”

Ifs Perfection Recognise

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.”

Form Half Talking Wise Teaching Fool Ancient Spokes Paradox Sage Systematic Half Truth

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.”

Life Littles Ideas Philosophy Action Life Is Too Much Expression Highest Constant Appreciation Betrayal Tiny Flight Unconscious Small Things Incidents Commentary

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.”

Ifs War Civilization Mindfulness Glory Claims Diligence Barbarians

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.”

Truth Pride Telling The Truth Refuge

Book:The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition

“The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”

Humans May Wonder Tears Blame Cups Tea Enjoyment Infinity Outsiders Thirst Seeming Tempest Drained Dregs

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.”

May Sweet Worship Flow Warm Tea Queens Streams Why Not Altars Liquid Amber Ivory Bacchus Porcelain Reticence

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

About the Author

Born: February 14, 1862
Died: September 2, 1913
Known for: Author
Quotes: 30

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