This is an image from an art blog weve recently been following, which we wanted to share with our Facebook friends: Yugen Photography. Japanese aesthetics is subtle and nuanced--as you might expect. Most striking is how the Japanese notion of aesthetics is less about philosophy or the principles of formal art and natural beauty and more about lived experience, natural objects, and their creation. Yugen, along with wabi and sabi--which are better known in the West--is a key dimension of Japanese aesthetics. The exact translation of the word, or so Wikipedia has it, depends on the context. In the Chinese philosophical texts the term was taken from, yūgen meant dim, deep, or mysterious. Yugen suggests that beyond what can be said but is not an allusion to another world. It is about this world, this experience.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:46:54 +0000
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