Japanese writer and art historian Kakuzo Okakura created his legendary oral reading book at the salon of Isabella Stewart Gadner, the founder of a private art gallery. Aimed at Western audiences, it has become a classic for tea drinkers all over the world. Full of deep thoughts and no less deep feelings, the publication is dedicated to the role of tea and the cult created around it - tiism - in the ethics and aesthetics of Japan. In it, the rules for creating a tea pavilion, the subtleties of the tea ceremony and the methods of arranging flowers are intertwined with the interpretations and postulates of the works of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, with the legends of China and Japan, with stories from the life of famous warriors, tea masters and great rulers of the East. Reading this essay, one can not only understand the basic ideas of Eastern teachings, but also feel the delightful grace and amazing poetry of the Eastern perception of the world.