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informative slow-paced

This short essay describes the unique beauty within Japanese culture and aesthetics, in particular the idea of the shadow and darkness as sources of beauty. And the shadow itself represents the mysteriousness and uncertainty in life and can bring out the hidden depths in things.
inspiring reflective medium-paced
informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced
informative inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

4*
informative inspiring

to call this illuminative would be misleading, it rather demonstrates the process of sifting through darkness without disrupting its glory

tanizaki was hating on light pollution and western civilization before it was cool!
this is a very pretentious, very outdated, very beautiful, somewhat homoerotic love letter to traditional japanese culture and it gave me a renewed appreciation for simplicity and shadows (surprise!)
informative inspiring reflective slow-paced