Beauty of simple

Spent 3 nights at a machiya in Kyoto. One thing that strike me the most is they way they layout the space. It isn't spacious but still, significant amount of spaces are reserved for things like, a small zen garden, a square in the living room for displaying art piece.

In Hong Kong, those will be blocked as a cupboard or something for storage.

But this demonstrate how the two races value against beauty, or arts, into their life. For Japanese, I can see the beauty is indeed a necessity, which they will put it into practice in the meal they serve, the way they dress, all things that happened in daily life. They would given up, space for example, for embracing the arts into their life.

Now, I am practicing the idea of having less but embracing the remains, embracing the room we granted for ourselves.