Tea and Zen
Tea and Zen are somehow linked, in an odd story of how Esai, the monk who brought Buddhism to China, helped "his fellow monks stay awake during excruciating meditation sessions", by teaching them "how to process tea leaves into a hot drink". In fact, "Jo-o" , a "Sixteenth-century tea master" was also a Zen Buddhist and said, "wabi person epitomizes Zen".
Wabi-Sabi is also prevalent in some underlying parts of the book Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, in which an already ornate tea bowl, is made even greater by the fact that the main characters lover's lipstick had seeped into the cracks near the rim. This is referenced in the title of the chapter called "Her Mother's Lipstick".
Wabi-Sabi is also prevalent in some underlying parts of the book Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, in which an already ornate tea bowl, is made even greater by the fact that the main characters lover's lipstick had seeped into the cracks near the rim. This is referenced in the title of the chapter called "Her Mother's Lipstick".