This article reminds me a lot of Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows essay about Japanese aesthstics. For some reason a point that always stuck with me is it is muc

This article reminds me a lot of Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows essay about Japanese aesthstics. For some reason a point that always stuck with me is it is much more relaxing to use the bathroom in the quiet dark obscurity of the traditional Japanese outhouse than in a bright electrically lit porcelain western bathroom. I kind of think about my house design like this- with some intentionally dark, relaxing spaces.