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Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
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Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Admittedly, the beauty of wabi-sabi is not to everyone’s liking.
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Admittedly, the beauty of wabi-sabi is not to everyone’s liking.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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They invite a certain kind of reverie, and like his photographs they also invite solitary contemplation of the time-worn objects within them, often touched by what the Japanese call sabi, a quality of noble shabbiness.
Archive 2007-01-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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They invite a certain kind of reverie, and like his photographs they also invite solitary contemplation of the time-worn objects within them, often touched by what the Japanese call sabi, a quality of noble shabbiness.
On Slowness Bruce Schauble 2007
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It's a farm lot concept, so malaki siya at maganda 'yong view and I promised my kids that I will give them a swimming pool with a water slide para happy na sila at saka sabi ni Josh, gusto niya rin ng ja-kuzzi sa pool.
Home Dominic Rea 2010
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It was inspired by this Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which is about beauty and impermanence at the same time.
unknown title 2009
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The Gothic Revival was born from the appreciation of picturesque ruins, but even a twentieth century hipster might talk of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic appreciation of transcience.
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The Gothic Revival was born from the appreciation of picturesque ruins, but even a twentieth century hipster might talk of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic appreciation of transcience.
angharad commented on the word sabi
approximately: bittersweet beauty in agedness or impermanence
December 2, 2006