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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Within Vinony's link graph, mono no aware is referenced by 441 other articles, and connects out to melancholia, love and death.
It is catalogued under topics including Concepts in Japanese aesthetics, Concepts in metaphysics and Emotions.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
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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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