Cha-No-Yu
Subtitle: Japanese Tea Ceremony
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780804834070
Subjects: Customs; Zen Buddhism; Regional & Ethnic - Japanese; Social Science; Cooking / Wine; Sociology; Japan; Beverages - Coffee & Tea; Customs & Traditions
First sentence: Tea drinking began in China among the Zen monks, who used it as a method of preventing sleep, and from that progressed to the Cha King or Tea Gospel of Luh Wuh in the period of T'ang, but it was the Sung and Yuan ages with their devotion to philosophy on one hand and sentiment on the other that combined Tea and Zen to produce that characteristic culture that aimed at a life of calm and simplicity.