Japan, Scholar February 14, 1862 – September, 2, 1913.
Okakura Kakuzō (February 14, 1862 – September 2, 1913) (also known as 岡倉 天心 Okakura Tenshin) was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan. Outside Japan, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of The Book of Tea.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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.
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.
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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