Intriguing word history and insight into the Japanese aesthetic.
"Thus, in contemporary culture, wabi-sabi has been relieved of much of its existential melancholy and has been embraced as a pleasure – in authentic expression, natural materials, rough edges, imperfect glazes, even deliberate flaws. It stands in particularly marked contrast to the characteristics of modernism, with its mass-produced uniformity and its seemingly-indestructible materials like plastic, stainless steel, silicon and the rest. In Japan particularly, the contrast can be startling."
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