dominic t.

Actually, the Book of Tea by Okakura is available online for FREE all
the time! http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/tboft11.txt

Also, the same one you are selling can be bought for the cover price
of $4.95 at any bookseller online or otherwise all the time, but I
guess $7+ is worth it when you factor in the time it took you to spam
this group AND post it to eBay.

Take Care!
- Dominic

From the site at
http://www.kellscraft.com/bookoftea/...acontents.html

(quote)
THE BOOK OF TEA

BY
OKAKURA-KAKUZO


NEW YORK
DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1919
COPYRIGHT 1906, BY
FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY


To
JOHN LAFARGE
Sensei


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE CUP OF HUMANITY
Tea ennobled into Teaism, a religion of ecstheticism, the adoration of
the beautiful among everyday facts – Teaism developed among both
nobles and peasants – The mutual misunderstanding of the New World and
the Old – The Worship of Tea in the West – Early records of Tea in
European writing – The Taoists' version of the combat between Spirit
and Matter – The modern struggle for wealth and power.

CHAPTER II. THE SCHOOLS OF TEA
The three stages of the evolution of Tea – The Boiled Tea, the Whipped
Tea, and the Steeped Tea, representative of the Tang, the Sung, and
the Ming dynasties of China – Luwuh, the first apostle of Tea – The
Tea-ideals of the three dynasties – To the latter-day Chinese Tea is a
delicious beverage, but not an ideal – In Japan Tea is a religion of
the art of life.

CHAPTER III. TAOISM AND ZENNISM
The connection of Zennism with Tea – Taoism, and its successor
Zennism, represent the individualistic trend of the Southern Chinese
mind – Taoism accepts the mundane and tries to find beauty in our
world of woe and worry – Zennism emphasizes the teachings of Taoism –
Through consecrated meditation may be attained supreme
self-realisation – Zennism, like Taoism, is the worship of Relativity
– Ideal of Teaism a result of the Zen conception of greatness in the
smallest incidents of life – Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic
ideals, Zennism made them practical.

CHAPTER IV. THE TEA-ROOM
The tea-room does not pretend to be other than a mere cottage – The
simplicity and purism of the tea-room – Symbolism in the construction
of the tea-room – The system of its decoration – A sanctuary from the
vexations of the outer world.

CHAPTER V. ART APPRECIATION
Sympathetic communion of minds necessary for art appreciation – The
secret understanding between the master and ourselves – The value of
suggestion – Art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us –
No real feeling in much of the apparent enthusiasm to-day – Confusion
of art with archaeology – We are destroying art in destroying the
beautiful in life.

CHAPTER VI. FLOWERS
Flowers our constant friends – The Master of Flowers – The waste of
Flowers among Western communities – The art of floriculture in the
East – The Tea-Masters and the Cult of Flowers – The Art of Flower
Arrangement – The adoration of the Flower for its own sake – The
Flower-Masters – Two main branches of the schools of Flower
Arrangement, the Formalistic and the Naturalesque.

CHAPTER VII. TEA-MASTERS
Real appreciation of art only possible to those who make of it a
living influence – Contributions of the Tea-Masters to art – Their
influence on the conduct of life – The Last Tea of Rikiu.
(unquote)

alan

$6.00 to ship a book?! It's sellers like this that turned me off of
ebay! That's one way to guarantee a profit even if someone only bids
$0.99 on your item. I suppose as long as people will pay it...

sn

you got to factor in the "price of gas", "time spent" to go to the
post office, park, stand in line, billed @ 50$/h ('cos getting a
degree in ebay'ing req'd a 4year bachelor training program... sold on
TV).

....don't even have to lick stamps anymore.

iggy

In addition to all the arguments made here, this is an extremely
common book. I find it in used book stores all the time. Heck, I
live in a rural dairy area and I managed to find a hardbound copy in a
nice slipcase (a 28th printing from 1980) for fifty cents at a local
garage sale!

I could understand paying exorbitant shipping prices for a rare or out
of print book, like an English translation of Lu Yu's Ch'a Ching, but
this is ridiculous!