Eight elements of Japanese aesthetics

To help you think differently.

Scot Gillespie
Nov 7 · 10 min read
A feeling of meditation is what most people ascribe to Japanese Aesthetics using “Zen like” as a descriptive, but this misses the point.

The more east you go from Europe the more you encounter cultures that have long standing culturally aesthetic conventions that are woven into their society. These conventions need not exist as a singularity, and many conventions live pluralistically side-by-side. Some of these conventions are formally tied to religious belief, some exist alongside…

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Scot Gillespie

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Scot Gillespie, nature and landscape photographer and writer. Once upon a life ago a mainstream fashion and editorial photographer — now thankfully more sane.

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