Through this presentation, you will learn how Japanese people feel and
taste Wabi Sabi from three examples; Japanese Garden, Tea Ceremony and Japanese
Flower Arrangement. Wabi Sabi is a peculiar Japanese aesthetic sense. It's a
kind of feeling, an awareness, an appreciation of aspects of Japanese culture.
However nobody can see it because it's your reaction of feeling to traditional
Japanese culture, but you can see thing related to Wabi Sabi. You will exactly
learn about three such examples in this presentation. How are these
examples connected with Wabi Sabi? Why do Japanese feel it is beautiful? Why
is this aspect of Japanese culture a little peculiar and simple? After
listening to this presentation, your point of view and sensitivity may change.
Last week, we took a trip to the Southwest for 7 days. This trip was an absolutely wonderful memory. I had never been to these areas so I was stimulated by every things, for example, cactus, adobe style buildings, Native American culture and amazing dessert views. It is one of the most interesting trips I ever took, because I experienced some rare things like visiting Grand Canyon, visiting high school and so on. On this trip I could understand about Indian culture from a folk art museum. I would like to introduce some my best memories on this Southwest trip. My first best memory is Georgia O’Keef museum. Actually, before this trip, I was not familiar with her and didn’t know about any of her artworks, but I was looking forward to visiting here because I like art museums. Her artworks were very unique, abstract and absolutely fabulous, and these were very fresh to me. I especially liked bone’s paintings which one of the most famous her artwork, because the color contrast is very c...