Japanese Beauty

Discovering timeless Japanese Wabi Sabi to cultivate peace, joy and balance in a perfectly imperfect life Including exercises and daily practices Wondering how to find peace and joy in a fast-paced, perfection-driven world? Tired of feeling overwhelmed by life's imperfections? Imagine finding beauty in everyday imperfections, where the pressure to be perfect is replaced by the serenity of embracing things as they are, while also having the wisdom to improve what you can. Embrace the transformative power of Wabi Sabi, a timeless Japanese philosophy that teaches us to appreciate the beauty in...

SHIBUI introduces listeners to a transformative Japanese approach to aging that celebrates the subtle beauty, wisdom, and joy that emerge with time.

Discover the Life-Changing Power of Japanese Ma: Transform Your Home, Work, and Relationships Through the Art of Meaningful Space Are you overwhelmed by clutter, noise, and constant stimulation? Do you long for more peace, clarity, and depth in your daily life? The ancient Japanese principle of ma—the conscious creation of meaningful emptiness—offers a revolutionary approach to living that can transform everything from your living space to your inner peace. What You'll Learn: Ma is far more than minimalism or decluttering. It's a profound design philosophy that recognizes the power of ...

The definitive guide that teaches you how to use the Japanese concept of wabi sabi to reshape every area of your life and find happiness right where you are. Fed up with the exhausting challenges of our fast-paced, consumption-driven existence, millions of people around the world are turning to...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ’s Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary Hub A New York Times Editors’ Choice “One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman...

Have you ever wanted to create beautiful, practical pieces of art in minutes? With origins dating back to the 6th century, origami has delighted and intrigued people from around the world for millennia! Perfect for beginners of all ages, this guide is a great introduction to the simplicity and beauty of the technique with practical instructions to create your own works of art! Origami Book for Beginners is exactly the book for you! You’ll discover many types of origami folding, including step-by-step guides to multiple techniques!

While traveling to California I learned something new. As long as it is attached to a sexy trans babe, sticking your dick in a bigger dick's lubed up foreskin and fucking it is the real San Francisco treat!

A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a...

"A glittering, gory page-turner, Gorgeous Gruesome Faces is your next obsession." ―Gina Chen, New York Times-bestselling author of Violet Made of Thorns Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this spine-tingling sapphic thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face to face with...

Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself. On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten...

So here I am, delving into the past like Monsieur Poirot, not to solve a mystery, but to try to understand some of the events that have helped define the sort of person I have become. Some of it, naturally, is in the genes; but much of it is in the environment, in the circumstances in which we...

Personally attached to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi is a style that invites solace and an unpretentious otherworldliness into the home. It's anything but an embellishing style, fundamentally, yet a mentality. To establish a genuine wabi-sabi climate, one must gradually strip away overabundance and figure out how to be fulfilled living at the same time. Wabi-Sabi Home describes the rich history of this arising pattern in home plans and uncovers endless ways of bringing wabi-sabi components into contemporary residing spaces.

Winner of the 2024 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award and the 2025 PNBA Book Award “Spare, beautiful and richly layered, The Liberators is dazzling.” ―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “A piercing, patient debut by one of our...

"Since time immemorial, India has been an ocean bed over which numerous stories have flowed and enriched the world. Storytellers from Tulsidas to Rohinton Mistry have added their magic to this magnificent repository. Inspired in part by Somadeva’s Kathasaritasagara, William Radice collects...

THE SUN RISES OVER CALIFORNIA!!! Kenzuichi and Ickichiro are two very unlikely friends. Ken is tall, handsome and a kendo master. Ick is short, ugly and a sci-fi nerd. When Ken lands a good job in the sunshine state, he invites his best friend Ick to come along and live in his back house. This causes controversy with Ken's young wife, Mei, and because of this the two will be introduced to a sexual underground on the west coast.FALLING BEAUTY is a highly erotic Japanese style novel set in Southern California.

辺りに漂っていたのは確かにそこにある希望の香りだったそれは美の香りだった東京在住の音楽家ロジャーWラウザー宣教師が東日本大震災の被災地で見つけた音楽の力希望の香りボランティアとして活動する中美が恐怖と絶望に勝つ瞬間が何度もあった避難所の体育館でのコンサート炊き出し人々との交流それらの経験から書かれたメディテーションは私たちに神の美しさとその存在を示し励ましを与えてくれる

A new look at dark fairytales. Akin to the Brothers Grimm, none of these storybook characters are innocent. Cinder Ellah forgets who earned her the crown and pays a hefty price. Kaede’s new love interest weighs heavily on his soul. Olivia won’t give up her firstborn without a fight. The old woman living in a shoe bites off more than she can chew. Lere planned revenge, but contracted love sickness instead. These five stories will have you on the edge of your seat craving a sequel. Stories by Deborah Brown, Jo Niederhoff, Victor Nandi, Jarrett Mazza, and Thea Watson.

２週間後の効果は劇的。 女の一生は、自信で９割変わる！

大人気ヘア＆メイクアップアーティストにして美容系トップYouTuber小田切ヒロが、YouTubeでは見せない、ここだけの毒。女の生き方にスパイスを。美と毒が織りなす格言集。

Flowers is an eclectic collection and collaboration of poetry focused on growth, nature, and healing. It is written for those who feel the deepest feelings in their stages of growth during life. Those who cry the most tears, laugh the hardest, and choose to repeat as many times as necessary. It is a short poetry collection to calm your heart while weaving a story of beauty and grace. Stories often seen in nature and in our walk of life, almost simultaneously. Authors include: Blair Hayse, Mayuko Fukino, Abby Weitkamp, and Zachary Shiloh Watts.