Definitions
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- noun A
Japanese aesthetic that derives fromimperfection andtransience
Etymologies
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Examples
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Picking something up off the side of the road and using it in a new way is wabi-sabi.
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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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Picking something up off the side of the road and using it in a new way is wabi-sabi.
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Picking something up off the side of the road and using it in a new way is wabi-sabi.
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Picking something up off the side of the road and using it in a new way is wabi-sabi.
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Finding beauty in something old and rusty is wabi-sabi.
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Picking something up off the side of the road and using it in a new way is wabi-sabi.
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Finding beauty in something old and rusty is wabi-sabi.
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Picking something up off the side of the road and using it in a new way is wabi-sabi.
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They apprciate wabi-sabi out there and, trust me, this get-up is way wabi.
whichbe commented on the word wabi-sabi
"Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete," wrote Leonard Koren in his book Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. It is a beauty of things modest and humble, and of "things unconventional." Peripherally associated with Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi values characteristics that are rustic, earthy, and unpretentious, involving natural materials which are used neither representationally nor symbolically. (From ArtLex)
June 5, 2008
corylusavellana commented on the word wabi-sabi
I'm ashamed to say this always makes me think of wasabi.
January 2, 2009
thekatespanos commented on the word wabi-sabi
Wabi-sabi on Wikipedia
April 1, 2009
Logophile77 commented on the word wabi-sabi
This concept has been written about and discussed a lot but essentially this means, “a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”
https://thoughtcatalog.com/koty-neelis/2014/11/23-untranslatable-foreign-words-that-describe-love-better-than-you-ever-thought/
January 15, 2018