wabi
See also: wābí
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 侘び.
Noun
wabi (uncountable)
- (Zen Buddhism) A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.
- 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 94:
- A lamp here, table, bookcase, print on the wall. The incredible Japanese sense of wabi.
- 1998, V. Dixon Morris, translating Sen Sōshitsu XV, The Japanese Way of Tea, p. 146:
- One of these changes would be the further refinement of the concept of wabi as an aesthetic ideal, and that was to be the work of Takeno Jōō, under whom the Way of Tea would mature.
- 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 94:
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
wabi
Kou
Noun
wabi
Further reading
- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602 (as Sinsauru and Asas)
- Johannes A. Z'graggen, A Comparative Word list of the Rai Coast Languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Linguistics (1980)
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
wabi