[Philosophical poetry] The ultimate beauty in a Japanese black teacup, authored by Toshiyuki Namai
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The ultimate beauty in a Japanese black teacup
Black is not simply black in a sense of beauty
Black is not simply black in a virtue of beauty
There is a profound aesthetic state in black to be subtly felt
Now, I see the immense distances of space in the ultimate
aesthetic color, black
Black gives us something mysterious
Black gives us something gorgeous
Black gives us something ultimate
When I feel such gorgeousness in the profundity of black
I feel everlasting transmigration in it infinitely
Human life is transitory
There is nothing impeccable in the world
There is nothing everlasting in this world
Now, I just live in such an air of profundity
I feel the utmost value to tick away a second at all times
I now charmingly feel the meaning of my existence as a slightest bit
(Authored by Toshiyuki Namai, The Ultimate in Beauty - Philosophical Poems , Voyage Publication, 2024)