Yuriko Saito, born in 1953, is a retired Japanese-American philosopher specializing in aesthetics, with a particular focus on Japanese aesthetic philosophy including wabi-sabi, the appreciation of transience and imperfection, and on everyday aesthetics. She authored the influential books Everyday Aesthetics, published in 2007, and Aesthetics of the Familiar, published in 2017, the latter winning the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2018.
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Defining MomentAesthetics of the Familiar won the 2018 Outstanding Monograph Prize of the American Society for Aesthetics 1 Notable Publication Office HeldProfessor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design 1 TraditionEveryday aesthetics and Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, originated there.
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1. Yuriko Saito - Wikipedia
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born 1953
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originally from Sapporo, Japan
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specializing in aesthetics, including wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy of appreciating transience and imperfection
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Everyday Aesthetics
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professor emeritus of philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
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2018 winner of the Outstanding Monograph Prize of the American Society for Aesthetics
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