Japanese Aesthetic Yugen

The yugen trio is a collaboration between musicians from two very different countries japan and spain.

Japanese aesthetic yugen. Wabi sabi is the most quintessential of japanese aesthetics but also one of the hardest to express in english. There is no conception of some stable platonic realm above or behind it. First classical japanese philosophy understands reality as constant change or to use a buddhist expression impermanence the world of flux that presents itself to our senses is the only reality. Those best known and most influential in the west.

Yūgen 幽玄 is an important concept in traditional japanese aesthetics. Their artistic aim as a group is. First there is a wider range of types of aesthetic pleasure. Express aesthetic senses at all times and places.

Something deep and mysterious within both the musician and the listener which has to be independently discovered. As a result there are various customs of kakejiku in japan. The co existing of the modern urban world with the ancient and primal nature yugen is a concept in japanese aesthetics that originated from chinese with meaning depending on the context. These ideals and others underpin much of japanese cultural and aesthetic norms on what is considered.

It symbolizes a profound sense of mysterious beauty the universe holds some deep emotion that not. In the chinese philosophical texts the term was taken from yūgen meant dim deep or mysterious. Two preliminary observations about the japanese cultural tradition are relevant to the arts. The kakejiku is an art which expresses the japanese aesthetic senses.

Whereas western ideas of beauty are often rooted in the concept of the perfect form the japanese concept of beauty lies in appreciating the imperfections found in nature as all things of the natural world are impermanent and thus beautiful. Unlike most western aesthetics which recognize aesthetic pleasure independent of other values truth and falsity good and evil as the primary value of aesthetic experience the various japanese aesthetics recognize a range of objectives and effects that is more complex. From the wikipedia article on japanese aesthetics.

The japan yugen logo symbolizes the duality of japan. The exact translation of the word depends on the context. The kakejiku has long been used in traditional japanese events daily life and so on since ancient times. The trio pianist mika yamamoto violinist mariko nishikawa and cellist juan raso llaras all share a belief in music as something hidden.

Kakejiku and the life of the japanese are closely related. Japanese aesthetics is a set of ancient ideals that include wabi transient and stark beauty sabi the beauty of natural aging and yūgen these ideals and others underpin much of japanese cultural and aesthetic norms.