The Japanese tea bowl is a generated structure in regard to its shape, glazes, and decoration, leading to its beauty and comfort; the wine glass is fabricated and therefore stiff and lifeless.

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• The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.quote0.692
  Alexander's aesthetic principle explaining the appeal of the intimate scale.
• It is the material substance of walls, floors, steps, windows, and roof — and the configuration of how they are made — which governs whether living centers can emerge and fine structure adaptation can occurclaim0.688
  Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
• It is the geometry of these built structures, which, like the shell of a mollusc, makes the growing of the garden, and its resulting richness, possible.claim0.688
  Analogy emphasizing that geometry enables organic richness.
• We have drunk to the remembrance of the Beloved a wine wherewith we were made drunk before the vine was created.quote0.686
  From 'Umar Ibn al-Farid’s Khamriyyah, used to illustrate the pre‑conceptual, ecstatic basis of the deepest life.
• The lack of unfolding in the Japanese building complex's ground floor and inclined planes shows that they simply appeared from a whim, not from sensible adaptation.claim0.684
  Japanese building critique.
• Basho, the great Japanese haiku poet, expressed the unity and sadness of things, visible in the ordinary details of everyday life, perhaps more vividly than any other poet.claim0.682
  Basho's poetry is held up as the supreme example of capturing the unity-sadness of everyday life.
• The pure black columns in the Great Hall, as built by Ishiguro, lack the depth of feeling that the dark reddish black mockups possessed.claim0.680
• Taste is fundamental guidance in creative and design work beyond technical rules.claim0.679