Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.' The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzo is perhaps the best-known volume about tea written and published in English. In 1906, in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in