Adam Loughnane is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland. He is Co-Director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies, author of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artistic Expression as 'Motor-Perceptual faith' (2019) and editor of Ueda Shizuteru: Zen, Language, Experience (2020).

Through an inventive exploration of the aesthetic experience of the tea ceremony, Adam Loughnane unravels the seeming paradoxes of Eastern philosophy, illuminating not only distinctive but also some surprisingly congruent aspects of the Western tradition. His approach is both light-hearted and deeply serious, and a remarkable achievement!

• Introduction1. Tea History2. Foreigners in the Tea Garden3. Phenomenology 4. The Outer Garden5. The Inner Garden6. Inside the Hut7. Ceremony Begins8. As if in a DreamFurther ReadingBibliographyIndex

Adam Loughnane is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland. He is Co-Director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies, author of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artistic Expression as 'Motor-Perceptual faith' (2019) and editor of Ueda Shizuteru: Zen, Language, Experience (2020).

Through an inventive exploration of the aesthetic experience of the tea ceremony, Adam Loughnane unravels the seeming paradoxes of Eastern philosophy, illuminating not only distinctive but also some surprisingly congruent aspects of the Western tradition. His approach is both light-hearted and deeply serious, and a remarkable achievement!

• Introduction1. Tea History2. Foreigners in the Tea Garden3. Phenomenology 4. The Outer Garden5. The Inner Garden6. Inside the Hut7. Ceremony Begins8. As if in a DreamFurther ReadingBibliographyIndex