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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 

Jyo, Kyu and Iyo

From a book called Architecture and Body that I'm working with for Jeff:

"Things of Iyu [roughly, playfulness] are described with the word Omoshiro (interesting). In Japan being interesting dominates being right. The value scale is thus

to be beautiful (Jyo)
to be true (Kyo)
to be interesting (Iyu)
to be right."


What a wonderful idea!



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