Jananese Minimalism.

Japanese Minimalism

i would call it a "natural" minimalism.
why? if we look at the history of japanese "design",
we will see ,"minimalism" has dominate for a very long time.
(what i mean "design" here, include the architecture, crockery and so on)

what today the trend is, is not really a trend, but a tradition for japanese.

but where and what is the difference?
among the samples below, we can see: they used to choose a natural material and
show its real color.

"The Beauty of Unperfect" is also an important element of their traditional aesthetics. perfect geometric form is man-made and unnature. So they try to made a shape naturally pure, clean but in a more natural way. i think this is the main mentality of the japanese minimalism.

what do u think?