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At Paris Photo 2022 IBASHO will exhibit artists and works around the theme of ‘Spiritual Japan’. The philosophy of wabi-sabi, centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection, is part of the Japanese DNA. The aesthetic is described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. The works by the artists Mika Horie, Miho Kajioka, Nobuyuki Kobayashi and Naohiro Ninomiya all show this wabi-sabi beauty.
Buddhism is another cornerstone of Japanese life. Vintage works by the renowned Ken Domon of his most important series ‘Koji Junrei’ of Buddhist …