Reservations for private parties in the tea garden can be made by calling
315-686-5722.
Teaism
is an ancient Japanese
order 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. It is essentially
a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish
something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy
of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term,
for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point
of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness;
it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the
complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines a sense
of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of the
Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste.
Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
Spring Hours
Monday through Saturday
11am - 2pm