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/lit/, know of any good books using, illustrating, or outright discussing the Japanese phrase Mono No Aware (Japanese for the ahhness of things, the pathos of things, the fleetingness of things).

What do you think of the phrase and idea?

>> No.4393067

I'm Mono Not Aware of any.

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>>4393067
Very punny

>> No.4393221

>>4393025
Gateless gate

>> No.4393226

>>4393025
Alan Watts: The Way of Zen

>> No.4393233

>>4393226
How about, no.

>> No.4393632

>>4393233
Great argument, bro. Not enough sitting meditation for your tastes?

>> No.4394064

>>4393025

If you're trying to get the feeling of Mono no aware, I'd really recommend reading the poem anthology Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. There are 100 poems, each only a few lines long. you could finish the book in half an hour. But the emotions conveyed in some poems really do contain this feeling of mono no Aware. Especially poem #9 by Ono no komachi, one of the most popular poems in the anthology.

>> No.4394073

>>4394064

Also, I thought Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata was full of it.

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>>4393025
Not really a book, Clannad still is a good read full of it

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>>4393025
Not precisely a book, but the visual novel Clannad still is a good read full of the feeling of mono no aware, really touching

>> No.4394164

>>4393025
The Tale of the Heike is the embodiment of this aesthetic. It's basically about how the strong and arrogant will always fall, and how nothing lasts forever

>> No.4394180

>/lit/, know of any good books using, illustrating, or outright discussing the Japanese phrase Mono No Aware (Japanese for the ahhness of things, the pathos of things, the fleetingness of things).

The Tsurezuregusa, pops up in different aphorisms.

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>> No.4395629

Soseki's work reflects this pretty well.

Kusamakura especially.