Kakuzo Okakura has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is The Book of Tea.
The Book of Tea
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin This Penguin Classic is performed by Japanese actor Sadao Ueda, known for his appearances in Spectre, London has Fallen and What We Did on Our Holiday. For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a flash of inspiration, Okakura saw that the formal tea party as practised in New England was a distant cousin of the Japanese tea ceremony, and that East and West had thus 'met in the tea-cup.'
Public Domain (P)2019 Penguin Audio
The Book of Tea
Summary
This is the third production of Kotonoha Publications called "Great Book Series that has passed on the Japanese feeling". You have not read it although you are a Japanese! Unbelievable! It is an excellent work. This remark was made by Hector Sierra, who presided the NGO "Artists without Boundaries" who were reciting the English version. When the whole Asia including Japan was looked down upon from the West in the early part of the last century, in order to make the West realize the enthusiasm and magnificence of the East, Kakuzo (Tenshin) Okakura wrote this book in Boston. The original draft is written in English. Some expressions which can be taken as provocative are used, and Taoism which is taking the root of the East and the heart of en are represented excellently in the "Tea Ceremony". The first publication was in 1906 (Meiji 39). Even now after one century has passed, it is ndergoing series of versions and is currently on sale. (Iwanami Book Store/ISBN 4003311515) We will send the present work that has attracted many foreigners and Japanese people in distinguished literature reading format. (C) Kotonoha Publications "Audio Book Works of Kotonoha Publications are listed in http://www.kotonoha.co.jp"
Kotonoha
Sipping Nirvana
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This is the classic text on the famous Japanese art of making tea. It is a wonderful meditation on how the making and drinking of tea are akin to a meditative practice, such as is done more formally in Zazen (sitting meditation). Beautifully written and elegant in its presentation.
Public Domain (P)2020 David Christopher Lane
The Book of Tea
Summary
The Book of Tea (1906) by Okakura Kakuzo is a long essay which examines the role of chado (Teaism) in the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life. The author explains Teaism as “a philosophy founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence”. Originally written in English for a western audience, the essay deals with the spiritual traditions of Zen and Taoism, as well as the secular side of tea in Japanese life. The author shows how tea as a metaphor inspired the elegant simplicity which characterizes - inter alia - the art and architecture of Japan. According to the philosopher Tomonobu Imamichi, Martin Heidegger's concept of “Dasein” was inspired by Kakuzo’s expression “being-in-the-worldness” for the philosophy of Zhuangzi who composed a foundational text of the Tao. Kakuzó concludes that Teaism in itself serves as a universal remedy for promoting peace and tranquillity.
Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks