Wabi Sabi Tea House. Originally Wabi-Sabi is two words with two different meanings that over time have been associated together like the word ping-pong. Elegant simplicity is present in all aspects of the Tea ceremony.
I usually smell the aroma of tea leaves to check its quality before making a cup of tea. Sabi means things that are old and covered are more appealing than new things or things that stand out. The tea-master Rikyu was very influential in driving the aesthetic of simplicity humble austerity and intimacy in the tea ceremony.
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Lets go back to tea for a minute. Together wabi-sabi usually refer to beauty in simplicity or rustic elegance. The tea ceremony was originally devised to help Zen monks remain. Author Leonard Koren was trained as an architect but never built anything-except an eccentric Japanese tea house-because he found large permanent objects too philosophically vexing to design.