Final Notes

• Wabisabi - Japanese aesthetic; not found in the nature of gloom, but movements of subsiding not about the majestic, buut the tantavie, subtle things
• forces us to contemplate our own mentatlity
• tender sandess, exitensial 
• Similar to "han"
• bitter sweet comfort 
• Wabi - way of life, spiritual path; philosophical construct
• Sabi - materail objects, art and literature 
• Wabisabi applies to all art 
• Japanese are so involved in their past
• Artistically the most radical in art
• Modernism was a radical departure from tradition 
• Wabisabi was a radical departure 
• Buto Theater - finds beauty in fault 
• beauty can be found in something broken
• Noh Theater - oldest forms of Japanese theater
• one of the most spiritual
• Zen Buddhism influence  
• Kyogen Theater
• collaborates with Noh Theater 
• similar to folk tales
• very specific way when performing 
• Buto Theater
• Post WW11
• physical form of theater
• symbolism is prominent 
• raw emotion and expression of states of mind 
• Bunraku Theater
• Japanese puppetry