The Desolation of Nihility: Aesthetic Analysis of Japanese Domestic Ceramics from the Perspective of Japanese Zen Culture

Abstract

The culture of Zen comes into two diverse paths in China and Japan. Compared to China, the Japanese Zen culture has characteristics of natural, plain, sensitive, vanity and silence. It is unrestrained with feeble and desolation. And these characteristics are presented in Japanese domestic ceramic in the unique beauty of its domestic ceramic.