歌舞伎 Sexy cubism «Within the limits of aesthetics» Soben art № 00248

9 main concepts that help to comprehend Japanese culture
The charm of things, the sadness of loneliness, the mutedness on the verge of disappearing colors and sounds, traces of time, the eternal in the current, a broken branch and other beautiful metaphors that can barely explain untranslatable Japanese words

Forewarning. There are no exact definitions of the concepts discussed below, they, like other ideas that arose in Japan in the Middle Ages, are vague, poorly formulated, but clearly felt. It is impossible to translate them in one word. The European consciousness requires clear logic, clear formulations, while the Japanese rather plunges its concepts into the shadows, treats them more secretly, intimately. Hence the multitude of interpretations, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the absence of any explanations, except metaphorically mysterious one