feeling of may be so profound that allusions to senses, highlighting "the sound of wind or crickets,[...] the colour of flowers or snow", would be the only apt expression. Notable manga artists who use -style storytelling include Hitoshi Ashinano, Kozue Amano, and Kaoru Mori. In anime, both Only Yesterday by Isao Takahata and Mai Mai Miracle by Sunao Katabuchi emphasize the passing of time in gentle notes and by presenting the main plot against a parallel one from the past. By the 1970s, had been adopted in Japanese and English film criticism with noted attention towards the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu. Ozu was well known for creating a sense of , frequently climaxing with a character very understatedly saying , after a familial and societal paradigm shift, such as a daughter being married off, against the backdrop of a swiftly changing Japan. Ozu has often expressed feelings by showing the faces of objects rather than the face of an actor. Some examples include two fathers contemplating the rocks in a "dry landscape" garden, and a mirror reflecting the absence of the daughter who has just left home after getting married. Science fiction author Ken Liu's short story won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Inspired by works like the science fiction manga , Liu sought to evoke an "aesthetic primarily oriented towards creating in the reader an empathy towards the inevitable passing of all things", and to acknowledge "the importance of memory and continuity with the past". Akira Kurosawa's I Live in Fear and Shohei Imamura's Black Rain have been associated with the term. The 2020 science fiction novel The Book of Koli has as a primary character an artificial intelligence named Monono Aware, a wordplay on . See also Melancholia Vanitas This too shall pass, a Middle-Eastern adage regarding ephemerality Related terms with no direct translation in English: Memento mori Nine Changes Notes References External links from a Japanese culture class at Ohio State University Concepts in aesthetics Concepts in epistemology Concepts in metaphilosophy Concepts in metaphysics Concepts in the philosophy of mind Emotions History of philosophy Japanese aesthetics Japanese literary terminology Japanese philosophy Japanese words and phrases Melancholia Metaphysical theories Philosophy of life Philosophy of mind Words and phrases with no direct English translation