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The Flower (n.) of a performance, said Zeami, has no separate existence: without the spectator who reads a thousand excellences into it, there is none.
The Good (n.) is only what suits the need of the moment, said Zeami — for what standard have we to tell good from bad?
Yugen (n.) is a subtle beauty of obscure origin: watching a boat vanish behind far islands, wandering in a forest with no thought of return.
Yugen (n.) is a feeling English has no word for, learned only by opening yourself to the moments the Japanese use it — a boat vanishing behind far islands, geese lost in cloud.