Yugen, for the japanese aesthetic culture, means “dark,” or “mysterious”. Not giving importance or attention to the most magnificent and spectacular aspects of things, but to minor and hidden details, temporary and ephemeral, so blurred and evanescent aspects, that are invisible to a spectator any.
To express the essence of this theory, we must slow down, be patient, and look at things very closely: what feelings it evokes us to watch a forest immersed in fog, the vapor of a waterfall in the middle of a forest, the fine rain in a summer night?
We have to be able to get in touch with the pureness of essentialism.