The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
Lafcadio HearnAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: japanese
- Born: June 27, 1850
- Died: September 26, 1904
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