Okakura Kakuzō
Japanese art critic and scholar (1863 to 1913); promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms in the Meiji era; curator of the Department of Japanese and Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1910; author of The Book of Tea (1906), written in English.
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Teaism is a cult founded on adoring the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday life
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.
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Teaism is a cult founded on adoring the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday life
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
People who cannot feel the littleness of their own great things tend to overlook the greatness of little things in others
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
It is better to remain 'barbarians' than to base a claim to civilisation on the glory of war
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilisation were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
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East and West have developed along different lines, but there is no reason one should not supplement the other
We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters individuality in architecture
Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
Vanity is fatal to sympathetic feeling in art, in the artist and the public alike
In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
The present age is destroying the beautiful in life
The past may well look with pity at the poverty of our civilisation; the future will laugh at the barrenness of our art. We are destroying the beautiful in life.
The Book of Tea (1906) Said c. 1906
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