"陰影礼賛　in'ei raisan"
　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　

"In'ei Raisan"(In Praise of Shadows) is the title of a short book
by an Japanese author Jun'ichiro Tanizaki.
The essay stresses the importance of shades to Japanese sense
of beauty.Instead of searching for more blightness and clarity,
appreciate and praise the indirect or dim light as it is..

Written in early 1930's, the essay still give us a lot of inspirations.
And that is, what we are aming in our design for..


“ We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse courselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.
“ I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. ”

　　　　 　


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