Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Mono no aware o shiru hito (物の哀れを知る人) means, literally, “a person who knows the poignancy of things” — but the knowing it encapsulates is of a different kind. It is not knowledge from books or doctrine; it is knowing the way one knows grief, or a friend’s face — by acquaintance, not by information. Nor ...
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