The real inventors of minimalism are surely the Japanese, who, as Alex Kerr says, fill themselves with so many things and their homes are so cluttered with junk that they invented the tea ceremony as a reaction. It is a very ironic criticism that certainly does not value the wabi aesthetic and its expressive power, although sometimes travelling around J…
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