“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
Quotes by Kakuzo Okakura
“Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.”
Kakuzo OkakuraKakuzo Okakura, also known as Okakura Tenshin, was a prominent Japanese scholar and art critic during the Meiji Restoration, a period marked by significant cultural and political transformation in Jap...