The Shinto Value Behind the Japanese Arts

The Art of Making Something Natural

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When you think of Japanese Aesthetics, most people think about wabi-sabi, or the beauty in impermanence, exemplified by Japanese cherry blossoms that only bloom for a few days and then are gone. 

But what if I told you there is another, even more important, concept behind Japanese concepts of beauty?

Japenese aesthe…