JP 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Etiquette In Japan, Impermanence, Kintsugi
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Yoroshiku onegai shimasu (cid:1688)favorably, please. (cid:1689, boketto (cid:1688)the act of gazing vacantly into the distance. (cid:1689) Fuubutsushi (cid:1688)the things feelings, scents, images that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. (cid:1689: ukiyo (cid:1688)the floating world(cid:1689) Ikigai (cid:1688)a reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. (cid:1689) Komorebi (cid:1688)the sunlight that filters through the leaves of a tree. (cid:1689) Kogarashi (cid:1688)the cold wind that lets us know the arrival of winter. (cid:1689) Kintsukuroi (cid:1688)the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver joining the pieces and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. (cid:1689) (cid:2110) (cid:2111) otsukaresama. Once, when i asked my friend from a small tribe in burma how they would say breakfast there, she told me that they didn"t have a word for it because they only ate twice a day--lunch and dinner.
