Author: Hanjae Yi Mok, Ven Cho-ui
Translated by: Brother Anthony of Taizé, Hong Kyeong-hee, Steven D Owyoung
Publisher: Seoul Selection, 2011
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Three ancient texts expressing the essence of the Korean Way of Tea are here translated into English for the first time. The oldest, ChaBu (Rhapsody to Tea), by Hanjae Yi Mok (1471-1498), is a sophisticated and delicate celebration of tea. The author was a scholar of considerable attainments who died far too early. The 19th century saw a tea revival among Korean literati. Its main guide was the Venerable Cho‐ui (1786-1866). The first of his tea texts, ChaSinJeon (Chronicle of the Spirit of Tea), he copied from a Ming Chinese work to serve as a practical guide to tea. The great poem, DongChaSong (Hymn in Praise of Korean Tea), for which Cho‐ui is chiefly celebrated, is a set of formal poetic stanzas celebrating tea with notes by the author to elucidate the references.
This volume offers an English translation of these three remarkable works, with explanatory notes and biographies of the two great masters of Korean tea. It gives readers who are unfamiliar with Classical Chinese access to the essential texts of the Korean Way of Tea.
LKL says:
An essential companion piece to Brother Anthony’s and Hong Kyeong-hee’s The Korean Way of Tea. Seoul Selection has done us a great service by bringing out these translations, which come with helpful introductions and the original texts in Chinese script.
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