sharawadgi means A style of landscape gardening or architecture in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided in favour of an organic appearance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SHARAWADGI — [Noun] A deliberate aesthetic principle in landscape or architecture that eschews symmetry and rigid lines to cultivate an artful, unplanned naturalism. Likely from the Japanese share'aji or shara'aji (洒落味), meaning "elegant taste" or "stylish flavor," though first presented in 1690 by Sir William Temple as a Chinese term. Unlike symmetry, which imposes a mirroring order, or formalism, which bows to strict conventional rules, sharawadgi is the calculated art of the irregular. It is the winding garden path that disappears behind a mossy stone, the off-center placement of a solitary pavilion, and the arrangement of rocks to mimic a chance scattering by water. It is nature, edited by a whisper.
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- A style of landscape gardening or architecture in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided in favour of an organic appearance.“Among us, the Beauty of Building and Planting is placed chiefly in ſome certain Proportions, Symmetries, or Uniformities; our Walks and our Trees ranged ſo, as to anſwer one another, and at exact Distances. The Chineſes ſcorn this way of Planting, […] their greateſt Reach of Imagination, is employed in contriving Figures, where the Beauty ſhall be great, and ſtrike the Eye, but without any Order o”