wabi

Professor Itou said the word wabi originally meant “sad” or “lonely” but also meant “balanced” or “peaceful.”

The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010

Professor Itou said the word wabi originally meant “sad” or “lonely” but also meant “balanced” or “peaceful.”

The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010

Professor Itou said the word wabi originally meant “sad” or “lonely” but also meant “balanced” or “peaceful.”

The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010

I must be out of the loop because I hadn't heard the term wabi-sabi before, although I have embraced the concept whole-heartedly without naming it.

A Special Day at the Wabi-Sabi House The Curious Holts 2009

This is an example of the idea of wabi, understated beauty, which was first distinguished and praised when expressed in poetry.

Japanese Aesthetics Parkes, Graham 2005

In his book "Edward Weston: The Last Years at Carmel," the historian David Travis wrote that the cabin possesses "what the Japanese call wabi, which can be translated as quiet simplicity, humility, and even frugality."

NYT > Travel 2009

And so, Mark was taken by the idea of wabi sabi and started thinking about writing a children's book about this.

Blue Rose Girls 2008

In spirit, it is close to the traditional Japanese virtue of "wabi," which, far from shunning poverty as an evil, cultivates it as a good, a condition to be preferred, because in it lies freedom.

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

Ravelry synchronicity wabi-sabi recognizing options, and friends who help me do so

Felix et errabunda XXXII 2009

Swoim wdziękiem wabi on wszystkich przybyłych do złożenia mu, choćby krótkiej wizyty.

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