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Lectures of Japanese aesthetics by Toshiyuki Namai

The subtle and profound ("Yugen" in Japanese)

The subtle and profound (yugen in Japanese) is one of the Japanese aesthetic spiritual stages, which values a shared sense of communication without speaking words immensely in the profound mood of tranquility.

[Lecture-1]　Is the Japanese culture difficult to understand? Toshiyuki Namai lectures on the subtle and profound.

[Lecture-2]　A sense of beauty based upon Japanese flower arrangement Ikebana

[Lecture-3]　How you live delicately every day every night affects the quality of your arrangement

[Lecture-4]　The spirit of the Japanese Tea ceremony

[Aesthetics of Japan]　The spiritual state, “subtle taste” (wabi) was comprehensively pursued by Sen no Rikyū (1522-1591) who sublimely perfected the art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony in Azuchi-Momoyama Period.”

[Aesthetics of Japan]　Elegant simplicity (sabi) as an ideal state in Haiku (poems in seventeen syllables) especially expressed by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Edo Period authored by Toshiyuki Namai

[Aesthetics of Japan] 　Something better gives you to a great opportunity to refine delicacy and perceptibility.