How long does it take to read The Book of Tea?
Okakura Kakuzō
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō takes about 1 hour 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 17 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1900. 70 pages, about 19,250 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 476 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.
Subjects: Japanese tea ceremony, Social life and customs, Tea, Philosophy, Chadō, Fiction
