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- 幽玄 – Yūgen. “Profound and mysterious beauty.” This beautiful Japanese word is used in the context of a deep emotional response to a piece of art, like a Jackson Pollock painting, or nature.
- 懐かしい – Natsukashii. “Bringing forth happy, poignant memories of the past.” Natsukashii is used in the context of an object, sense, or scene bringing back sentimental memories of the past that illicit a warm, poignant feeling within.
- 金継ぎ – Kintsugi. “The art of broken things.” Kintsugi is used in the context of a broken object, like pottery, repaired with (traditionally) gold lacquer.
- 侘寂 – Wabi-sabi. “Imperfect beauty.” In terms of Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a central concept to both the language and traditional philosophy. It comes from the teachings of Buddhism, Japan’s most popular religion alongside Shinto, about the transient, imperfect nature of life itself.
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- Anime – fun fact, anime is really a loanword of a loanword! “Animation” became anime (アニメ) in Japanese, which became the English word for Japanese animation.
- Bonsai – from the Japanese bonsai (盆栽), literally “tray planting”
- Daikon – from the Japanese daikon (大根), literally “big root”
- Dojo – from the Japanese dōjō (道場), literally “place of the Way”
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