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In Praise of Shadows

The document discusses the preference for shadows, darkness, and muted colors in Japanese culture, highlighting the beauty found in darkness, the use of shadows in architecture, art, and aesthetics.

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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Yukio Mishima

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So the first one is this Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 essay, “In Praise of Shadows.” And this is a very small book, or a very long essay, in which Tanizaki kind of muses on his own taste, and why he designed his house in a certain way, and why he chooses food in a certain way or installs lamps in a certain way. And the point at whic... See more

‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • How to Discover Your Own Taste

The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura

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In Praise of Shadows

The essay explores the cultural appreciation of shadows, darkness, and subdued beauty in traditional Japanese architecture, art, and everyday objects, contrasting it with Western ideals of brightness and clarity.

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Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs

Little has been done in Europe with ash glazes, but in Japan the ash glaze has been a predominant feature of pottery since its use was first discovered in the Nara period. The desire for a nonuniform surface that can catch, in the glaze of each pot, the irregularities of nature hails back to the Japanese love of things that are imperfect and incomp

Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation

Lafcadio Hearn

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House in Nishioizumi – Minimalissimo

Tomoko Fukayama minimalissimo.com