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]]>"Mono no aware" refers to the inevitable change in life - a concept embraced by the Japanese inferring a certain sadness and beauty at the passing of all things. Literally translated it means the "pathos of things." I think the garden paths depicted here during the changes of seasons provides a visual representation of this concept

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