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Examples
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Professor Itou said the word wabi originally meant “sad” or “lonely” but also meant “balanced” or “peaceful.”
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Professor Itou said the word wabi originally meant “sad” or “lonely” but also meant “balanced” or “peaceful.”
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Professor Itou said the word wabi originally meant “sad” or “lonely” but also meant “balanced” or “peaceful.”
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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.
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This is an example of the idea of wabi, understated beauty, which was first distinguished and praised when expressed in poetry.
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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."
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And so, Mark was taken by the idea of wabi sabi and started thinking about writing a children's book about this.
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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.
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Ravelry synchronicity wabi-sabi recognizing options, and friends who help me do so
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Swoim wdziękiem wabi on wszystkich przybyłych do złożenia mu, choćby krótkiej wizyty.
angharad commented on the word wabi
approximately: beauty in natural quirks and rustic imperfections
December 2, 2006