Subtle Taste and Elegant Simplicity (wabi and sabi), lectured by Toshiyuki Namai
Subtle Taste and Elegant Simplicity (wabi and sabi), lectured by Toshiyuki Namai
“Subtle taste” (wabi) and “elegant simplicity” (sabi) have been sublimely performing the profound traditional spiritual ideals here in Japan generation after generation for a long time. These spiritual ideals are crossculturally interpreted and treated as the “highest aesthetic values” by cultured and artistic professionals all over the world who are really genuine to culturally and artistically feel such delicate peculiarity of these in their subtilized sensibility possessed.
It is obviously true that those two aesthetic values possess some common internal unique aspects and senses such as a fundamental sense of quiet sadness, encouragement of simplicity and rejection of superfluous gaudiness as well. It is “not” an aesthetically elegant and mature to thoughtlessly have “something superfluous” in such spirituality subtilized.