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Rikyu took the baton of artlessness from his predecessor, Ikkyu, when he introduced Korean craft pottery into his tea ceremony. The Korean potters, who might have made a hundred similar pots in a day, were probably totally devoid of any thought of artistic aspirations as they worked, and it was just this lack of intellect that proved so attractive
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the Imperfect
Kakuzo Okakura • The Book of Tea (Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC)
Haiku and waka poems convey perhaps more easily than painting the subtle differences between the four moods of sabi, wabi, aware, and yugen.
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, the first of which is The Great Wave.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
In the tearoom there is a sober veneration for unadorned rusticity, for the greatness to be found in the most restrained expression of the humble and simple.
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.