On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore in Manhattan. Among the English-language books about Japan, I encountered a section of a shelf marked “WABI-SABI” and stocked with ...

After taking off in America and other countries, the phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ was imported back to Japan as a compound term. In it, in an essay titled, “The Beauty of Irregularity,” Yanagi wrote about the ...

I was confused even as I approached the concept of Japan. I strove to hold in the same mental visual the various bits of knowledge that had come my way. This was a land whose people are capable of ...

Japan's passion for the modern coexists with aesthetic proclivities that favor antiquity and refinement. Japanese aesthetics can seem impossibly complex. Central posits of Zen aesthetics, such as ...

Wabi-sabi is a centuries-old Japanese philosophy that embraces imperfection, simplicity, and the natural passage of time. Sara Ligorria-Tramp; Design: Emily Henderson When designing your home, one ...

There is a Japanese philosophy — wabi-sabi — that sees the world as impermanent, imperfect and incomplete. Neal Joiner, an art student at Southeast Missouri State University, said he used this ...

Accepting my imperfections has been a lifelong challenge for me. It started when I was a young child growing up with immigrant parents in a predominantly white neighborhood. I was raised by a tough, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore in Manhattan. Among the English-language books about Japan, I encountered a section of a shelf ...