Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Finding the Beauty in Imperfections - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of the fleeting, changeable, and imperfect nature of the world around us. Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete.

wabi-sabi, the ancient Japanese wisdom of finding beauty in imperfection, in accepting the natural cycle of life, and loving things as they are.

One of the oldest presentations of wabi-sabi is known as kintsugi or “golden scars.” This is the practice of filling cracks with gold fillings.

Wabi sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things.