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The story of two women whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan, this novel is also a portrait of Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Told through the enchanting voice of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by proprietors of a tea ceremony school, this book is "equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman" (Publishers Weekly).--From publisher description.
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2005
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The Book of Tea has served for more than a century as one of the most perceptive introductions to Asian life and thought in English. Publication of the book was a pioneering effort in the cultural bridge-building between East and West. Kakuzo Okakura perceived chanoyu-literally, "the way of tea"-as a form of spiritual culture, a disipline that transforms itself into the Art of Life. In writing of chanoyu, his concern was the broad current of Asian...
3) Cup of death
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Choose your own adventure volume 013
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2007.
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While visiting a friend in Japan, you learn a valuable tea bowl has been stolen. Can you retrieve the bowl before thieves spirit it out of the country?
4) Erika-san
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[2009]
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After falling in love with Japan as a little girl, Erika becomes a teacher and fulfills her childhood dream by moving to a remote Japanese island.
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