Un tratado de estética japonesa

The East and the West have observed reality differently for centuries, and thus have reflected it with notable differences in their respective artistic traditions. One of the most attractive aspects of Japanese aesthetics is that, in our eyes, we find it fascinating because it is different: if values ??such as order, symmetry and logical progression prevail in the West, in the East, and particularly in Japan, the dominant criteria Are others. That is where concepts appear, increasingly widespread but not always well assimilated in our culture, such as yugen (bombastic and mysterious beauty), mono no aware (appreciation of the ephemeral) or wabi (beauty in simplicity), three concepts, among many others, which Donald Richie establishes as essential to understanding Japanese aesthetics and, therefore, a unique perception of supreme beauty. This aesthetic treatise, written with a deep knowledge of Japanese art and with a language as clear as it is hypnotic, is the ideal access to a world rich in stimuli, provocations and delights. A fast and efficient way, therefore, to understand Japan's particular vision of the beauty of things and the order of nature, which from our western understanding of art can be both alternative and complementary. Or what is the same, as provocative as enriching.