The Book of Tea
What is the editor's opinion of Okakura?
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In the editor's opinion, Okakura was a complicated man and a study of contrasts. He could be brilliant but also infantile, visionary but suffering from cultural myopia, arrogant and pedantic but sentimental. What cannot be disputed is that, in his time, he was one of the greatest Oriental scholars, and his knowledge of Oriental art was unparalleled.