![]() ![]() In his book, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren describes it as occupying "roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."Īll sorts of attempts have been made to encapsulate the feeling: "rustic," "desolateness," or "acceptance of transience and imperfection." Unfortunately, like many philosophical concepts, wabi-sabi cannot be easily explained or translated. "Desolateness" is used in the subtitles when the Japanese Kato actually uses is wabi-sabi 侘 ( わ )び 寂 ( さ )び. Hidden beauty." So says kendo sensei Shozo Kato in a video by The Avant/Garde Diaries. In comparison, Eastern beauty is desolateness. ![]() ![]() "Western beauty is radiance, majesty, grandness and broadness. ![]()
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