I love Classical Japanese aesthetics. Let's just get that out of the way first. Traditional Aesthetics like Wabi-Sabi and especially Mono no Aware float my boat in a major way. And as a measure of personal relation to a piece of art, the only thing that can beat the power of strongly resonating aesthetics is the Depiction of Personal Experience ( Read more... )

The word above reads "Natsukashii". It's an adjective, an expression that details a specific kind of feeling of fond remembrance. Walking past a playground and remembering the days you played there as a child, walking into a store and smelling the air conditioning and remembering your freshman year dorm, a song that played on the radio on the bus ( Read more... )