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ID: 300310717
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300310717

 

Record Type: concept
wabi (aesthetic concepts, philosophical concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name))

 

Note: An aesthetic ideal advocating for the appreciation of austerity, simplicity, and humility that has deeply influenced Japanese culture. This ideal finds surpassing beauty and deep significance in what is humble or commonplace and appears natural or artless. It expressed in the aesthetic of the tea ceremony, particularly in its ceramics. Its influence can also be seen in the practice of collecting older paintings and works of calligraphy and, more recently, in the rough and natural style of contemporary grass style ink painting. Wabi became a part of a poetic ideal only when it was absorbed into the concept of "sabi".
 
Terms:
wabi (preferred,C,V,English-P,D,U,N)
wabi (Dutch-P,D,U,U)
wabi (Japanese (transliterated)-P,D,U,N)
佗美 (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
tuó měi (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
tuo mei (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
t'o mei (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  B.BM

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Associated Concepts Facet
Associated Concepts Facet
Hierarchy of Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
.... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of philosophical concepts
........ philosophical concepts (G)
Hierarchy of aesthetic concepts
............ aesthetic concepts (G)
Hierarchy of wabi
................ wabi (G)

Additional Notes:
Chinese (traditional) ..... 提倡欣賞嚴肅、簡樸、謙遜的美學理念,對日本文化影響極深。此種美學理想,在謙恭或平凡中顯現自然、單純,追求超脫的美感與深層的意義。表現於茶道美學中,特別是茶道中的手作陶器。其影響可見於古董字畫的蒐集,最近也見於粗獷自然的當代草書式水墨畫中。直到寂美(sabi)的概念融入,佗美也成為詩學理念的一部分。 
Dutch ..... Een esthetisch ideaal dat pleit voor soberheid, eenvoud en nederigheid, en dat een grote invloed heeft gehad op de Japanse cultuur. Volgens dit ideaal bezit het nederige, alledaagse, schijnbaar natuurlijke en ongekunstelde een onovertroffen schoonheid en een diepe betekenis. Het komt tot uitdrukking in de esthetiek van de theeceremonie, met name in de daarvoor bestemde keramiek. De invloed is ook te zien bij het verzamelen van oudere schilderijen en kalligrafische werken en, meer recent, bij de ruwe en natuurlijke stijl van het hedendaagse inktschilderen. Wabi werd pas onderdeel van een poëtisch ideaal toen het werd opgenomen in het concept van 'sabi'. 

Related concepts:
distinguished from ....  sabi
..................................  (aesthetic concepts, philosophical concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) [300310718]

Sources and Contributors:
佗美............  [AS-Academia Sinica Preferred]
...........  TELDAP database (2009-)
t'o mei............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  TELDAP database (2009-)
tuo mei............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  TELDAP database (2009-)
tuó měi............  [AS-Academia Sinica]
.................  TELDAP database (2009-)
wabi............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........  AAT-Ned (1994-)
...........  JAANUS [online] (2001-) accessed 23 November 2008
...........  Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (1983)
...........  Mason, History of Japanese Art (1993) 392
...........  Munsterberg, Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art (1981) 328
 
Subject: .....  [AS-Academia Sinica, RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  http://www.simplifylife.nl/UserFiles/pdf/476/476_simp-ruimte_wabisabi.pdf
............  JAANUS [online] (2001-) accessed 23 November 2008
............  Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (1983)
............  Mason, History of Japanese Art (1993) 392
............  Munsterberg, Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art (1981) 328
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... JAANUS [online] (2001-) accessed 23 November 2008
.......... Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (1983)
.......... Mason, History of Japanese Art (1993) 392
.......... Munsterberg, Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art (1981) 328
Chinese (traditional) .......... [AS-Academia Sinica]
.......... TELDAP database (2009-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)

 

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