Mono No Aware

,, modern kana: . The old kana form remains preferred in modern usage.}} literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of , or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.
The idiom comes from Heian period literature,... meer