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    Japanese aesthetics comprise a set of ancient ideals that include wabi (transient and stark beauty), sabi (the beauty of natural patina and aging), and...
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  • archetypal or stereotypical aesthetics of Japanese culture, Iki is instead a cornerstone[citation needed] of traditional Japanese aesthetic appeal and thought...
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  • in Japanese art and is also linked to the Zen Buddhism philosophy of presence and awareness. Minimalism is a prominent aspect of Japanese aesthetics, focusing...
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  • Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste and, in a broad sense, incorporates...
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    Kawaii (redirect from Japanese cute culture)
    former Japanese aesthetics of "beautiful" and "refined". As a cultural phenomenon, cuteness is increasingly accepted in Japan as a part of Japanese culture...
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  • African aesthetic Itutu Ancient aesthetics Indian aesthetics Rasa Internet aesthetic Japanese aesthetics Iki Medieval aesthetics Aesthetic emotions Art manifesto...
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  • Japanese female beauty practices and ideals are a cultural set of standards in relevance to human physical appearance and aesthetics. Distinctive features...
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    Kintsugi (category Japanese aesthetics)
    kintsugi is similar to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect. Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear from the...
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    Wabi-sabi (category Japanese aesthetics)
    In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes...
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    2024. "Japanese Confucian Philosophy". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. May 20, 2008. Parkes, Graham (January 1, 2011). "Japanese aesthetics". In Zalta...
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    Japanese art Japanese art consists of a wide range of art styles and media that includes ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk...
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  • Irezumi (redirect from Japanese tattoo)
    spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also...
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  • In Praise of Shadows (category Japanese aesthetics)
    on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English, in 1977, by the academic students of Japanese literature...
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    history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the...
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  • Everyday Aesthetics is a recent subfield of philosophical aesthetics focusing on everyday events, settings and activities in which the faculty of sensibility...
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    Ensō (category Japanese aesthetics)
    characterised by a minimalism influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy, and Japanese aesthetics. An empty circle also appears in the ten oxherding pictures which...
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    Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial...
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    Mono no aware (category Japanese aesthetics)
    Edo period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga in his literary criticism of The Tale of Genji, and later to other germinal Japanese works including...
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  • Shibui (category Japanese aesthetics)
    (objective noun) are Japanese words that refer to a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty. Like other Japanese aesthetics terms, such...
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    House of Japan Tourism in Japan Japanese language Etiquette in Japan Religion in Japan Japanese cuisine Japanese aesthetics Japanese music Japanese performing...
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    Tsundoku (category Japanese aesthetics)
    are on a bookshelf. The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku (積んでおく, "to pile things...
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    economic organization of Japan. The samurai spirit and the virtues can still be found in Japanese society. Notable Japanese consider bushido an important...
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    Ichi-go ichi-e (category Japanese aesthetics)
    Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一期一会, pronounced [it͡ɕi.ɡo it͡ɕi.e], lit. "one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes...
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    Hakama (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    left) is asymmetrical, and as such is an example of asymmetry in Japanese aesthetics. Historically, a boy would start wearing his first pair of hakama...
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    2011. Saito, Yuriko (1997). "The Japanese Aesthetics of Imperfection and Insufficiency". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 55 (4): 377–385...
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  • Japanese popular culture includes Japanese cinema, cuisine, television programs, anime, manga, video games, music, and doujinshi, all of which retain older...
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    (1996). The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation: Suiseki and Its Use With Bonsai, p. 17. Rivera, Felix G. (1997). Suiseki: The Japanese Art of Miniature...
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    Japanese settlement in the Philippines or Japanese Filipino, refers to one of the largest branches of Japanese diaspora having historical contact with...
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    Hagakure (category Japanese aesthetics)
    samurai tradition, this work serves as an example of what the Japanese army thought Japanese soldiers should believe about samurai practice." In the post-war...
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    Superflat (category Japanese aesthetics)
    various flattened forms in Japanese graphic art, animation, pop culture and fine arts, as well as the "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture." Superflat...
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