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Mono no Aware

Literal Translation

(物の哀れ) The pathos of things — the bittersweet awareness of impermanence provoked by beautiful things that do not last. The philosophical dimension of hanami: the beauty of the blossoms is inseparable from the knowledge that they will fall.