This is a term for a very short amount of time: one seventy-fifth of a second. That is just how precisely Japanese people were measuring time. It’s the thought that every moment, the state of things change. We find beauty in the brevity and fleeting nature that comes from constant changing.

Within this fleeting nature of existence, we find a unique form of beauty—a reverence for the fragile, transient, and ever-changing flow of life.