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one of the nineteenth century's most prolific and successful book illustrators

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The Book of Tea one of the nineteenth century'sKakuzo Okakura, who was known in America as a scholar, art critic, and Curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, directed almost his entire adult life toward the preservation and reawakening of the Japanese national heritage in art, ethics, social customs, and other areas of life in the face of the Westernizing influences that were revolutionizing Japan around the turn of the century. This modern classic is essentially an