Japan Books
Designing Design
Author:
Kenya Hara
Kenya Hara invites readers to reconsider the objects and experiences that shape daily life by exploring the profound concept of emptiness. As the …
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Author:
Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren provides a definitive introduction to the elusive Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi. This classic work explores a worldview centered o…
In Praise of Shadows
Author:
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Translator:
Edward G. Seidensticker
Translator:
Thomas J. Harper
Author:
Charles Moore
Junichiro Tanizaki offers a profound meditation on the traditional Japanese aesthetic, arguing that beauty exists not in the light, but in the pat…