Posts tagged "sabi"

Shogun who found simplicity. Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Genealogy of Simplicity ~ Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa ~ In a way, modern design can be a simple design. According to dictionary word “simple” is “condition of less elements”. Simple means that colors, shapes and materials are simple and restrained. Simple is not a monopolist of modernism. Nor is it limited to architecture or product design....

Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~
”Japan was ahead of modernism hundreds of years than the West, in the middle of the Muromachi era(1336 – 1573), it already valued the beauty of simplicity ” (Jun Hara, “White” 2008) The similarity of Japan’s values and modernism which both respects simplicity, is a great concern for Japan who imported modernism. Concerning the eyes...