Rustic objects, autumn and winter, sunsets and twilight, the willing embrace of solitariness, like an evening spent trapped alone in a cabin in the backwoods by a sudden cloudburst, welcoming the charged stillness — all express [the Japanese concept of] sabi, which in turn expresses a self-governing beauty. It is an elegance that is consummated not just by human beings but by the universe through its natural course.
— H. E. Davey, Living the Japanese Arts & Ways