aesthetics, japanese

"Author Waka T. Brown and artist Yuko Jones join forces for this picture book about a young girl who learns to appreciate life's imperfections when her grandmother teachers her about the Japanese art form kintsugi"--Amazon.

"Explains how Japanese aesthetics based in fine craftsmanship and simplicity developed"--Amazon.

Explores the Japanese traditional rustic aesthetic of wabi-sabi and discusses how it can be applied to a variety of fields, including the arts, digital mediums, poetry, philosophy, and more.

A collection of the author's haiku accompanies text and color photographs which explore the application of Japanese art and poetry to photography.

Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.