Design criteria: Reality of impermanence used to add a sense of perspective and finality All design work approached with humility and sincerity Clarity of personal motives All aspects of design kept to a functional minimum Pieces that are intimate and personal

In the Japanese art of this period we see the emergence of wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen—qualities that have become synonymous with the Zen aesthetic. Wabi is a sense of loneliness or solitude. Sabi is the suchness of ordinary objects, the basic, unmistakable uniqueness of a thing in and of itself. Aware is a feeling of nostalgia, a longing for the