Temples of Yesterday, Gardens of Today: The Eternity of Mosses in Japan

Conference at 18:00 p.m. by Veronique BRINDEAU, Author, Professor of the history of Japanese music at the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations, Editorial Coordinator at the Ensemble intercontemporain (Cité de la musique).

It is in Japan that we cultivate and admire the modest mosses that the West so often ignores. Yet they embody the eternity of the gods, the constancy of the heart, and the harmony with the passing of time that settles on the stones. Entering the world of mosses also means accessing these fundamental values ​​of Japanese aesthetics: sobriety, naturalness, a taste for patina and the marks of time that we call sabi, elegant simplicity tinged with archaism, coupled with an attraction to tranquility and withdrawal from the world that we call wabi.