Aesthetic Terms Related to Shin-Kokinsha #1 44% (1205) and Beyond Yagen Mystery and depth. The mid-classical ideal of tonal complexity conveyed by the overtones of poems typically in the mode of descriptive symbolism. Associated with the poet-critic Fujiwara Shunzei fi JRBEAk (1114-1204), the style was made to harmonize with other ideas of the age, particularly sabi and y6en, and was normally characterized by sadness, imagery of a veiled, monochromatic nature, and an atmosphere of rich, mysterious beauty. Inherited by renga poets and the N6 dramatists, who tended to apply the term to an ideal of beauty more closely resembling y6en. Quoted from Brower and Miner, Japanese Court Poetry, p. 514. Yéen SRB Ethereal charm. The esthetic ideal of a romantic, unworldly beauty, like that of a ‘heavenly maiden descending to earth on a hazy moonlit night in spring.’ Advocated by the mid-classical poet Fujiwara no Teika S/R 723% 1162-1241 [son of Shunzei] during his early manhood. Characterized by complexity of technique and tending to express subtle shades of pathos, the poetry of yen typically combined elements of more somber styles with ‘beautiful’ imagery and an ethereal atmosphere.” Quoted from Brower and Miner, Japanese Court Poetry, p. 513. Sabi #U' Loneliness. The tone of lyric melancholy prized by the mid-classical poets Shunzei and Saigyd, and others. Though primarily used to describe the tone or atmosphere of a poem, sabi was also associated with certain kinds of imagery of a withered, monochromatic nature, to which unique qualities of beauty were attributed. The ideal was inherited by the later poets of the renga and haiku, particularly Bashd. Quoted from Brower and Miner, Japanese Court Poetry, p. 510.