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On Japanese Aesthetic Sense of "Small Is beautiful" and Its Significance

Wang Jing-jie

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Japanese people have a special sense of beauty.The meaning of Japanese word utukushii,Japanese literature and other art forms indicate that Japanese people regard small is beautiful.This sense exists in their mind of daily life,too.That small is beautiful is one of Japan's important and traditional aesthetic sense.Their aesthetic sense of small is beautiful originates in Japanese natural geography and its unique landscape.This aesthetic sense plays an important role throughout its history.And it has great significances in two aspects.One is that Japan's reconstruction of foreign civilizations,and the other is that Japanese people pay more attention to details in every field.

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Japanese people have a special sense of beauty.The meaning of Japanese word utukushii,Japanese literature and other art forms indicate that Japanese people regard small is beautiful.This sense exists in their mind of daily life,too.That small is beautiful is one of Japan's important and traditional aesthetic sense.Their aesthetic sense of small is beautiful originates in Japanese natural geography and its unique landscape.This aesthetic sense plays an important role throughout its history.And it has great significances in two aspects.One is that Japan's reconstruction of foreign civilizations,and the other is that Japanese people pay more attention to details in every field.

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Japanese people have a special sense of beauty.The meaning of Japanese word utukushii,Japanese literature and other art forms indicate that Japanese people regard small is beautiful.This sense exists in their mind of daily life,too.That small is beautiful is one of Japan's important and traditional aesthetic sense.Their aesthetic sense of small is beautiful originates in Japanese natural geography and its unique landscape.This aesthetic sense plays an important role throughout its history.And it has great significances in two aspects.One is that Japan's reconstruction of foreign civilizations,and the other is that Japanese people pay more attention to details in every field.

Key concepts: Aesthetics, Meaning (existential), Beauty, Sense of place, Natural (archaeology), Sense (electronics), Psychology of self, History

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