The Cup of Humanity
“The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer , painting -our very literature- all have been subject to its influence.”
- The entirety of Japanese culture has been influenced by its geographic and political isolation, which allowed Teaism.
- The way of life in Japan has been defined by its development of tea culture through a blatant disregard of the outside world.
- Japan’s ability to develop its culture without being imprinted upon by other countries permitted it to grow and change by the hands of its society to individualize the culture surrounding tea.
