Mac Logue

Wabi Sabi is the most profound and important Japanese aesthetic. It is described as the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.

According to Leonard Koren, in his book Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, Wabi Sabi “…occupies roughly the same place in Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of perfection and beauty in the West.”

Always closely related to Zen, Wabi Sabi acknowledges that everything arises and returns to nothingness. All things are incomplete; all things are imperfect. Wabi Sabi rejects the notions of traditional beauty, arising instead in things simple, humble and intimate.

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