He investigated Japanese art following Ernest Fenollosa, which led him to be aware of Japan, and in this book he throw a question of the way that self-containment should be through tea ceremony to the United States and European countries, which were in a golden age of imperialism.
アーネスト・フェノロサに付いて日本美術の調査をしたのをきっかけに日本に目覚めた著者が、帝国主義全盛時代の欧米に、茶を通して自己充足の在り方を投げかけた書。