*”The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea-ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. He was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields.”*
Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea, 1906
The best part about this channel is the historical shit talking that went down that doesn’t make it on normal docs
Europeans litterally murdering each other over Western/Eastern influence :
“I don’t see what you’re talking about”.
“A high regard for commerce permeates the hearts of Europeans”
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*”The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea-ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. He was wont to regard Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on Manchurian battlefields.”*
Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea, 1906
The best part about this channel is the historical shit talking that went down that doesn’t make it on normal docs
Europeans litterally murdering each other over Western/Eastern influence :
“I don’t see what you’re talking about”.
“A high regard for commerce permeates the hearts of Europeans”
Nailed it.