Wabi-sabi

To begin with, Bola and Asi shouldn’t have known that Meji the son of Bola and the father of Asi. That he was a spirit. The first reason why they shouldn’t have realized he was a spirit is because Meji made it very hard for them to even think of him as a spirit. Meji encountered his family, touching and talking to them as if he was never actually dead. In the story Meji was carrying his daughter on his back and walking around with her while his mother went to the store. His daughter Asi didn’t notice anything that was truly out of the ordinary. When his daughter asked about why her father was wearing a scarf he replied with because “my head might fall off”. That just sounds like a father trying to joke around with his daughter. Bola and Asia…

As Garcia argues in Wabi-Sabi column, that “imperceptibly it has reached your mind.” (41) It is very difficult to know and adapt Japanese invisible feeling. Why he says this is because the invisible consists of long life in Japan. I think this part is very different from the U.S. that there is an immigrant nation, so people has different background from each other. It makes them tell other more directly than they think. Reading minds of each other is difficult action for different background…

Wabi Sabi: The Beauty of Imperfection In her essay, “An argument about beauty”, Susan Sontag implies we look past blemishes and imperfections. Sontag references “…scratches… in the surface of an Old Master painting…”(Sontag, 1), something she says we “…reflexively screen out or see past” (Sontag, 1). It seems obvious that Sontag finds these imperfections distasteful and unworthy of attention. However, this idea of ignoring an interruption of the expected landscape for the sake of enjoying the…

The architecture in the tradition of the Buddhist, half comes from china and its love of symmetry and gold, which shows a lot, however their own religion, Shintoism is all about a symmetry and finding the balance within the flaws, they actually have a term for it called “wabi sabi” mean perfectly imperfect. Usually two religions don’t mix, but these too show a lot throughout the culture of japan, and they coexist in…

This sinification occurs through Buddhist Zen temples, art trade, tea ceremonies or chanoyu, and theatre (Varley, 113; 121; 124). Tea master Murata Shūko expresses a common perspective about Chinese influence, caring to "harmonize Japanese and Chinese tastes" (qtd. 129). Zen temples bring the landscape garden practice, valuing impermanence and wabi (rustic, withering) aesthetic (Varley, 134; 129). Chanoyus begin as informal and evolve into articulate practices, influencing the status quo that…

enlightenment without distinctions of race, religion, gender, economic or political class” ( Hijikata & O’Duffy). The classical Japanese philosophy which states that reality is subject to constant change, reveals a world of impermanence. The constant oscillation, together with the awareness of the ephemeral moment, ignite an appreciation for the present, instead of causing nihilistic despair or cynical attitudes. Under this influence, practices such as chado (tea ceremony), ikebana (flower…

1. Raku a. History i. Origins Tile sculptor and potter Chojiro developed the raku technique during the Momoyama period in the 16th century. Chojiro was asked by tea master Sen no Rikyu to create tea bowls for the new restrained and simplified aesthetic style of Zen Buddhist tea ceremonies. Chojiro’s tea bowls used monochromatic glazes, typically black or red. The overall design aimed to eliminate variations of form, movement, and decoration. They also symbolized the aesthetics of wabi-sabi which…

unexpected drama which moves people. For example: he introduce narrow passage, the gate, the flight of stairs, suken walls which help to produce his complex space and more discovery. In the architecture of Tadao Ando, detail, decorative elements, and colors are intentionally escaped in order to magnify the potentiality of geometry and space, in combination with natural abstract elements... Ando’s employment of the natural textures and colors of the material is inherited from traditional…