Japan · Presence

Mono no aware

The gentle sadness of things passing — and the love of them anyway.

Origin: Heian-period Japan Coming soon

Mono no aware is the bittersweet awareness that everything we love is passing — and that this passing is itself part of what makes it loved. It is grief and gratitude collapsed into one feeling.

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The first concept on this platform is live: Ikigai — the Japanese secret to a long and happy life. It has been built the way every concept on this platform will be — illustrated, ritualised, lived.

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