Wabi-sabi: Bristfällig, tillfällig och ofullständig

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Läste ett inlägg på CKTG-forumet om japanska köksknivar. Där stod det:

There is a term called "Wabi Sabi" in their culture and it refers to something being handmade and having small imperfections being valued over a "perfect" machine made, sterile item. This is why the Japanese users are OK with the spine/choil not being rounded, the blade not being fully sharpened, minor handle issues, dips/ripples in the blade grind, etc. All of these small imperfections show that the knife was hand made, which they like to see. Customers outside of Japan see these as fit and finish issues because we expect everything to be perfectly fit and polished, perfectly even grinds and super sharp out of the box.

Jag har alltid gillat rustika, handgjorda saker och det var väl därför jag föll så pladask för handgjorda, japanska kolstålsknivar. Därför tyckte jag det var väldigt intressant att det kanske fanns en hel filosofi/ideal bakom det hela.


Wikipedia

Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty and it occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West. If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.

Detta rimmar ju väl med patina och att slipa sina knivar själv.


Wabi-Sabi: The Art Of Imperfection

Broadly, wabi-sabi is everything that today’s sleek, mass-produced, technology-saturated culture isn’t. It’s flea markets, not shopping malls; aged wood, not swank floor coverings; one single morning glory, not a dozen red roses. Wabi-sabi understands the tender, raw beauty of a gray December landscape and the aching elegance of an abandoned building or shed. It celebrates cracks and crevices and rot and all the other marks that time and weather and use leave behind. To discover wabi-sabi is to see the singular beauty in something that may first look decrepit and ugly.

Sterila, känslokalla Global-knivar kan slänga sig i väggen.


The Beauty of Wabi-Sabi

The beauty of wabi-sabi is an "event," a turn of mind, not an intrinsic property of things. In other words, the beauty of wabi-sabi "happens," it does not reside in objects and/or environments. By analogy, if you fall in love with someone or something—say a physically unattractive person, place, or thing—thereafter you will perceive this someone or something as beautiful (at least some of the time), even if the rest of the world doesn't.

Wabi-sabi has a compelling pedagogic dimension. Because things wabi-sabi reveal "honest" natural processes such as aging, blemishing, deterioration, etc., they graphically mirror our own mortal journeys through existence. Accordingly, interacting with wabi-sabi objects and environments surely inclines us towards a more graceful acceptance of our existential fate.

Aaaah, jag och mina relationer/förhållanden till olika kolstålisar.

[Chutotoro (Reine)]

Vackert Kände inte till uttrycket, men det låter helt rätt!

[leifanders]

På hantverk skall det synas att det är hantverk. Jag vet svenska hantverkare som avsiktligt kan göra någon liten imperfektion just bara för att visa att det är så.