Japan, the masters of ‘wabi-sabi’
Japan prides itself its cool—the spare beauty of wabi-sabi ( 
Wiki).
Whether it is the simple elegance of Japanese tatami mat room, the quiet emptiness of a Zen garden, or it most famous embodiment—the pottery cups of Japanese tea ceremony—not quite symmetrical, rustic and simple-looking.
Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic of the beauty of things stripped down, modest and most of all humble… such as this Japanese Wabi-sabi sidecar and Zen cruiser that I saw today.
Actually…hundreds of years ago, a student to Zen Master Wu had the best rhetorical question about this aesthetic:
“So, basically, Zen is a crock?”
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