After taking off in America and other countries, the phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ was imported back to Japan as a compound term. In it, in an essay titled, “The Beauty of Irregularity,” Yanagi wrote about the ...

Wabi-sabi isn’t loud. It doesn’t arrive with neon quotes about “loving yourself” or force you to romanticise your life every five minutes. It sits quietly in the corner, like a cup of slightly uneven ...

In a world obsessed with aesthetic perfection, wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the passage of time. This age-old approach is enjoying a revival in Western ...