An aesthetic is defined by a concerned beauty or the appreciation of beauty, also as a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artistic or artist movement (Urban Dictionary). The Japanese aesthetic is a set of ancient ideals such as the Mono No Aware, Wabi-Sabi and the Yūgen. These aesthetics reinforce the Japanese cultural and aesthetic norms that are considered to be beautiful. The Mono no Aware sets an example of the Cherry Blossoms, it was settled as an everyday expression of sorrow and it is located at the center of the Japanese premodern aesthetic sensibility and thereby has become something aesthetic category. The Mono no Aware is also known as the poignant beauty of things where it shows a cultivated compassion …show more content…
Another Japanese aesthetics is the Wabi-Sabi, the example use to describe this aesthetic is the Tea Hut. The Wabi- Sabi also known as the rustric beauty or desolate beauty. It is explained that the qualities usually associated with Wabi and Sabi are austerity, imperfection and a palpable sense of the passage time.
“The “way of tea” (chadō; also called cha no yu) is closely associated with the wabi-sabi aesthetic. For example, the famous tea master Sen no Rikyū (1521-1591) captures the aesthetic of simplicity at the very heart of the tea ceremony: “the art of cha-no-yu consists in nothing else but in boiling water, making tea, and sipping it” (cited in D.T. SUZUKI , Zen and Japanese Culture . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973, p. 280.) Sen no Rikyū’s phrase “consists in nothing else” is meant to indicate the discipline of cha-no-yu as a way of spiritual and moral cultivation. In other words, one’s entire being is absolutely and utterly occupied with the seemingly mundane act of
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For example stories of ancient India were influential for shaping Japanese stories an important story that reflects on the Japanese folklore are The Journey to the West. Also, the Japanese folklore is divided into several categories; mukashibanashi best known for the tales of long ago, the namidabanashi where all the sad stories are part of, ghost stories best known of obakebanashi, ongaeshibanashi stories that represent kindness, tonchibanashi are the witty stories, the funny stories also called waraibanashi and finally the stories of greed called