Super cool stuff (Mono no aware)

An utter Japanese theme that I find very fascinating. Basically mono no aware literally means "sensitivity to things" this theme basically describes Japanese culture, alot. The theme states the subjectiveness of beauty, and how it's rather something internal than external, it's found everywhere, in japanese poetry, music, novels, especially films and anime shows which i'll go into further detail later on in my blog postings. (Anime deserves it's own individual post.)
The way that this theme is shown is by giving melancholy settings that actually have affirmative meanings. For eaxmple the Japanese find a fading sound more beautiful than a clear one, a moon partially clouded more alluring than full.
The epitome of this conception of beauty comes from the cherry blossom tree which blossom for a very short time then drop all of their flowers at once, whenever you hear or see a of cherry blossom tree in a piece of writting or film you can infer that it's trying to convey a beauty filled sadness to it.
All of this derives from Zen Buddhist philosophy.
This theme may be interpreted in many different ways, this is merely my perception of it.
Cherry blossom credit