Marilyn Lange / Playboy’s Playmate Of The Month, May 1974, Playmate Of The Year, 1975 / Photo By Dwight

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“Much has been said of the aesthetic values of chanoyu- the love of the subdued and austere- most commonly characterized by the term, wabi. Wabi originally suggested an atmosphere of desolation, both in the sense of solitariness and in the sense of the poverty of things. In the long history of various Japanese arts, the sense of wabi gradually came to take on a positive meaning to be recognized for its profound religious sense. …the related term, sabi,… It was mid-winter, and the water’s surface was covered with the withered leaves of the lotuses. Suddenly I realized that the flowers had not simply dried up, but that they embodied, in their decomposition, the fullness of life that would emerge again in their natural beauty.”

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Kakuzo  Okakura

Italian soldiers gathered together for a photograph during the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, from Oct 24 1918 to Nov 4 1918 when Austria dropped out of the #WWI. . Colourised by @rocolor.photo.