27 August 2025, Tokyo, Japan

Is ikigai* about money?

Is wabi-sabi about imperfection?

A way of living, a feeling.

Being

Is Japan homogenous?

Or an adaptive historical place

Where influx is assimilated

Land of the rising sun

Will material life take over

Are spiritual values absent

Or where they never there

To be explored !

Namaskar, Ashis

• * "a motivating force; something or someone that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living".
• ** a traditional Japanese aesthetic centered on the acceptance of imperfection, transience, and incompleteness.