Wabi Sabi
Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-Sabi（侘寂） is a Japanese understanding of beauty or worldview that is widely used for describing art, places, people, and other kind situations. Wabi-Sabi aesthetic includes simplicity, plainness, quietness, harmony and intimacy. Wabi-Sabi comes from two different words. Wabi comes from the word Wabishii（侘しい）, which means deprived, empty, or drearily. Wabi originally meant something discouraging. However, it changed to aesthetic when Japanese was strongly influenced by the idea of Zen. Original ward for Sabi is Sabishii（寂しい）, which represent loneliness, not satisfied, or unaccompanied. Sabi also indicates how the things are deteriorated from passing the time. Sabishii also has somewhat discouraging meanings. However, from around twelfth century, Japanese became to think that things like old books or old trees covered with lichen are thought provoking. This idea is fairly close to the aesthetic of the antique of the western culture.......
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