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— Purple #43 S/S 2025
The Tokyo Diary Issue

wabi-sabi spiritual values

essay by LEONARD KOREN   Idealistic beauty. Like many of my contemporaries, I first learned of wabi-sabi during my youthful spiritual quest in the late 1960s. At that time, the traditional culture of Japan beckoned with profound “answers” to life’s toughest questions. Wabi-sabi seemed to be a nature-based aesthetic paradigm that restored a measure of […]

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