represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience.

Asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes—”if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi.”

(with thanks to rabbit-light)