"A wave of rare incense is wafted from the tea-room; it is the summons
which bids the guests to enter. One by one they advance and take their
places. In the tokonoma hangs a kakemono—a wonderful writing by an
ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all earthly things. The
singing kettle. . . sounds like some cicada pouring forth his woes to
departing summer."
Okakura Kakuzo, Book of Tea (1906), Describing the last Cha-no-yu by Rikiu, a great tea master
Okakura Kakuzo, Book of Tea (1906), Describing the last Cha-no-yu by Rikiu, a great tea master
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