mono no aware
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Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness or wistfulness at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life
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- Part of
- Japanese aesthetics
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- language of work or name
- Early Middle Japanese
- theorized by
- Motoori Norinaga
- facet of
- Heian literature
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