a practice inherent to Japanese culture

Indeed, through this book, our mind gradually learns to open up to this inherent practice to Japanese culture that is the tea ceremony. Through this autobiographical novel, Inoue explores this world at once so complex and so simple that the Europeans have so much trouble understanding. Through the vision of one of its diciples Inoue tries to explain the mysterious death if a famous tea master but also the existing parallelism between Japanese culture full of codes, and this ceremony rythes following too precise objectives well ideals exciting ...