"chill"

"lean" or "withered"

the loneliness of living in nature,

remote from society

nothing lasts

nothing is finished


nothing is perfect

Shibui has seven qualifiers: simplicity, implicitness, modesty, silence, naturalness, everydayness, and imperfection.

shibui

karei

The gorgeous splendor (Karei) segment is a tribute to the nobility and ruling warrior class. Here is design of a most refined quality.

wabi

mono no aware

sabi

patina of time
feeling something has age

but with a taste of

a certain loneliness
desolation

Narrow Road of Oku

How still it is
Stinging into the stones,
The locusts thrill.

Basho(1689)
translation Donald Keene

"chill"

"lean" or "withered"