The Book of Tea (Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC)

of Cosmic Change,—the

the No-Beginning,

Code of the Samurai,—the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self-sacrifice;

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

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 ten

Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.

the Imperfect