Aesthetic: a particular theory or conception of beauty or art;a particular taste for or approach to what is pleasing to the senses and especially sight. (Merriam–Webster) What’s so special ...

As a scholar of classical Japanese language, literature and culture, I too have a professional interest in wabi and sabi and how they have come to be understood outside Japan. A cursory search of ...

Wabi-sabi is typically described as a traditional Japanese aesthetic: the beauty of something perfectly imperfect, in the sense of “flawed” or “unfinished.” ...

But it’s actually an ancient idea. For hundreds of years, Japan’s dominant aesthetic has been wabi sabi, which values the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete.

Rea Amit, ON THE STRUCTURE OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE AESTHETICS, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 62, No. 2 (APRIL 2012), pp. 174-185 ...

But if you still want to maintain the Japanese feel, matcha and red bean are also among the options. L-R: Onigiri, okonomiyaki, halo-halo and sweet corn kakigori ...

With 'Zen in Japanese Culture,' Gavin Blair deftly sidesteps superficial how-tos and Orientalism to deliver a in-depth explainer that leaves readers wanting to dig even deeper.