“Western aesthetics is sometimes familiar with simplicity, asymmetry and suggestion, but the idea that beauty lies in its own vanishing is an idea much less common. Perishability remains, however, what [Donald] Keene has called the ‘the most distinctively Japanese aesthetic ideal’. It is certainly among the earliest, being based on the Buddhist concept of “mujō”… nothing is stable, and our only refuge lies in accepting, even celebrating this.”
-Donald Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics, 2007
Calligraphy by Vicky 