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The Japanese art of doing cool and amazing things. Surely there’s a word that just represents all of the cool and amazing things, and skills that the Japanese h
by underseacables 5y ago
The Japanese art of doing cool and amazing things. Surely there’s a word that just represents all of the cool and amazing things, and skills that the Japanese have for art.
- yojo 5y agoNot exactly what you’re asking for, but a lot of the cool stuff seems to stem from appreciation of wabi-sabi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
- asddubs 5y agoI learned about this when I watched that king of the hill episode where bobby grows roses in his closet and i still think about it all the time
- bitwize 5y agoAdopting a similar stance of mind yields cool things regardless of culture. I've been known to call Slackware "the shibui Linux distro". Its roughness, lack of ostentation, and exposure of command-line-centric Unix roots is why the distro is so appealing.
- dvh 5y agoPeople spend their lives finding a way to do things. Japanese spend their lives finding the way to do things.
- lovemenot 5y agoI propose: 和道 wado. The way of harmony. It's not actually used, so far as I know. But it fits your definition.