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 1 1|                  I. The Cup of Humanity~Tea began as a medicine and
 2 1|                life. ~The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism
 3 1|               speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible
 4 1|         emotions, as one "with too much tea" in him. ~The outsider may
 5 1|            complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance
 6 1|                 my own ignorance of the Tea Cult by being so outspoken.
 7 1|                 us for having "too much tea," but may we not suspect
 8 1|                you of the West have "no tea" in your constitution? ~
 9 1|               hesitation. The afternoon tea is now an important function
10 1|                know that the Worship of Tea is established beyond question.
11 1|                  The earliest record of tea in European writing is said
12 1|             were the duties on salt and tea. Marco Polo records the
13 1|          Tareira (1610), also mentioned tea. In the last-named year
14 1|               Company brought the first tea into Europe. It was known
15 1|                world, the propaganda of Tea met with opposition. Heretics
16 1|                  Jonas Hanway (Essay on Tea, 1756) said that men seemed
17 1|               beauty through the use of tea. Its cost at the start (
18 1|          themselves over their "dish of tea." The beverage soon became
19 1|                the heavy duties laid on Tea. American independence dates
20 1|            subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible
21 1|               an hour every morning for tea, bread and butter; and would
22 1|                a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty
23 1|             fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with
24 1|                amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and
25 1|          solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning." ~
26 1|         Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening
27 2|                      II. The Schools of Tea.~Tea is a work of art and
28 2|                 II. The Schools of Tea.~Tea is a work of art and needs
29 2|         qualities. We have good and bad tea, as we have good and bad
30 2|           recipe for making the perfect tea, as there are no rules for
31 2|                 the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation. ~
32 2|                manipulation. ~Like Art, Tea has its periods and its
33 2|                 main stages: the Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the
34 2|                 Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea. We
35 2|            Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea. We moderns belong to the
36 2|                 Naturalistic schools of Tea. ~The tea-plant, a native
37 2|              fourth and fifth centuries Tea became a favourite beverage
38 2|              Yet the method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive
39 2|           Russians, who learned to take tea from the Chinese caravansaries,
40 2|              Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state and
41 2|               have our first apostle of tea. He was born in an age when
42 2|                   The Holy Scripture of Tea) he formulated the Code
43 2|               he formulated the Code of Tea. He has since been worshipped
44 2|             tutelary god of the Chinese tea merchants. ~The "Chaking"
45 2|             connection the influence of tea on Chinese ceramics. The
46 2|            cake-tea. Later on, when the tea masters of Sung took to
47 2|               Sung took to the powdered tea, they preferred heavy bowls
48 2|               Mings, with their steeped tea, rejoiced in light ware
49 2|          describes the method of making tea. He eliminates all ingredients
50 2|              put in the first boil, the tea in the second. At the third
51 2|                the kettle to settle the tea and revive the "youth of
52 2|                tea-drinkers, the famous tea plantations of China, the
53 2|                 been able to detect the tea made by Luwuh from that
54 2|               failure to appreciate the tea of this great master. ~In
55 2|                Sung dynasty the whipped tea came into fashion and created
56 2|            created the second school of Tea. The leaves were ground
57 2|       enthusiasm of the Sung people for tea knew no bounds. Epicures
58 2|     dissertation on the twenty kinds of tea, among which he prizes the "
59 2|              which he prizes the "white tea" as of the rarest and finest
60 2|               into the art of life. The tea began to be not a poetical
61 2| self-realisation. Wangyucheng eulogised tea as "flooding his soul like
62 2|                the immaculate purity in tea which defied corruption
63 2|       formulated an elaborate ritual of tea. The monks gathered before
64 2|               of Bodhi Dharma and drank tea out of a single bowl with
65 2|              former times. The powdered tea is entirely forgotten. We
66 2|                 recall the shape of the tea whisk mentioned in one of
67 2|               one of the Sung classics. Tea is now taken by steeping
68 2|                older method of drinking tea is explained by the fact
69 2|               To the latter-day Chinese tea is a delicious beverage,
70 2|             civilisation, has known the tea in all its three stages.
71 2|                the Emperor Shomu giving tea to one hundred monks at
72 2|               in the beverage. The Sung tea reached us in 1191 with
73 2|              name of producing the best tea in the world. The southern
74 2|                 Ashikaga-Voshinasa, the tea ceremony is fully constituted
75 2|                  The use of the steeped tea of the later China is comparatively
76 2|               has replaced the powdered tea in ordinary consumption,
77 2|                to hold its place as the tea of teas. ~It is in the Japanese
78 2|                   It is in the Japanese tea ceremony that we see the
79 2|             through the nomadic inroad. Tea with us became more than
80 2|                plot was woven about the tea, the flowers, and the paintings.
81 3|              connection of Zennism with tea is proverbial. We have already
82 3|          associated with the history of tea. It is written in the Chinese
83 3|                the ceremony of offering tea to a guest began with Kwanyin,
84 3|             paring a turnip, or serving tea. The whole ideal of Teaism
85 4|            anteroom (midsuya) where the tea utensils are washed and
86 4|                of successively drinking tea out of a bowl before the
87 4|                tea-room is made for the tea master, not the tea-master
88 6|                invited him to a morning tea at his house. On the appointed
89 7|                 through their teachings tea has entered the life of
90 7|            enter the unknown. The "Last Tea of Rikiu" will stand forth
91 7|             Each in turn is served with tea, and each in turn silently