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 ...

Japanese culture is famous for its unique aesthetics, which have influenced art, architecture, and daily life. These concepts ...

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 titles ...

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 ...

(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 marked “WABI-SABI” and ...

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 ...

Wabi-sabi offers a refuge from the modern world's obsession with perfection, and accepts imperfections as all the more meaningful – and, in their own way, beautiful. As people the world over are ...

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, ...