Japanese Style connects with and incorporates Japanese design traditions into the home. Adept at compact living and elegant simplicity, the Japanese embody the principle of doing more with less, and embrace the discipline it takes to rule out the unnecessary or frivolous. Author Sunamita Lim discusses these aesthetic ideals and cultural principles and reveals how designing with nature's beauty can create a simple and beautiful home.

It's easy to see why the Zen-like simplicity of Japanese interiors is most appealing. The spare, neat rooms invite silent reflection while offering tranquil repose in return.Japanese style also provides sanctuary from a chaotic world at the end of the day, thus gifting inner renewal to spirit and, consequently, to outer mind and body too. The Japanese ethos thrives in doing more, with less. For a life of luxury is, after all, a life of simplicity--by being free of unnecessary encumbrances.

Our attraction to Japanese-style structures, interiors, and gardens reflects a universal desire to live in natural harmony with self, others, and the world. The Japanese-style home environment reflects soulful sentiments of simplicity, sincerity, humility, and purity. It continuously refreshes spirit,emotions, and body, and allows for every item to perform at least one useful function.

In Japanese Style, Sunamita Lim offers refreshing insights into the Japanese lifestyle for enhancing your home and garden,while discovering new inspirations for daily living. Through gorgeous color photography, the author shows that by building with nature and embracing the discipline it takes to rule out the unnecessary or frivolous, anyone can incorporate the Japanese aesthetic to create a simple and beautiful look.

Acknowledgments

Intuoduction

1.A LIFESTYLE COMMENTARY ON JAPANESE AESTHETICS

2.WHAT IS JAPANESE STYLE TO AMERICANS?

3.MEDITATIONS ON BEAUTY IN JAPAN

4.ENDURING ELEMENTS OF JAPANESE DESIGN AND AESTHETICS

5.JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND AMERICAN SENSIBILITIES

6.LIVING WITH NATURAL GRACED IN THE JAPANESE STYLE

7.CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMPLES IN AMERICA

8.A YEN FOR GOOD DESIGN

Historical Periods of Japan

Glossary

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Index