refined taste; elegant pursuits
Refers to a cultivated appreciation for traditional arts such as tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and poetry. Often associated with the aesthetic of わび・さび.
He built a tea room with refined taste.
People who live the way of elegant pursuits cherish wabi-sabi.
わびさび is a specific aesthetic concept of rustic simplicity and quietness, often underlying 数寄.
person of refined taste; aesthete; tea ceremony master · lecher; lewd man
white tabi (silk or cotton)
sukiya style of building; tea-ceremony arbor style
Applies to each form listed below
Ateji spelling; the most common written form for this meaning.
Alternate ateji spelling; less common than 数寄.
The kanji 数寄 and 数奇 are ateji (phonetic equivalents) for the native Japanese word すき, meaning 'liking' or 'fondness,' which developed into the sense of refined taste.