A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics Quotes

“Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.”
― Donald Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.”
― Donald Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

“Here we would notice that what we would call Japanese aesthetics (in contrast to Western aesthetics) is more concerned with process than with product, with the actual construction of a self than with self-expression. The”
― Donald Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics