Japanese Culture: Identity and Tradition

I'm writing my essay now... being a busy beaver!

But it's a bit of a chore really.


I AM interested in what I'm writing about. The whole wabi thing strangely hits home. Like this one:

"People often say that a set of books look ugly if all volumes are not in the same format, but I was impressed to hear the Aboot Kouyuu say " It is typical of the unintelligent man to insist on assembling complete sets of everything. Imperfect sets are better". In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth."
Kenkoo, on wabi-sabi aesthetics.