Yūgen (幽玄) – Flanelle Magazine

Yūgen” (幽玄). Yūgen is a term from traditional Japanese aesthetics which represents an understanding of the universe through understated beauty, subtly and grace. It has been used to describe a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe and the sad beauty of human suffering. It implies that beyond what can be said but is not an allusion to another world. It is about this world, this experience.