Kakuzo Okakura The Book Of Tea Quotes & Sayings

Asiatic youths are flocking to Western colleges for the equipment of modern education. Our insight does not penetrate your culture deeply, but at least we are willing to learn. Some of my compatriots have adopted too much of your customs and too much of your etiquette, in the delusion that the acquisition of stiff collars and tall silk hats comprised the attainment of your civilisation. Pathetic and deplorable as such affectations are, they evince our willingness to approach the West on our knees. — Okakura Kakuzo

Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery? — Okakura Kakuzo

We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea — Douglas Preston