"Small things are all beautiful," wrote Sei Shonagon, a female writer, in her Makura-no-Soshi (pillow book), known as the earliest essay writing in Japan. Small children, toolboxes for dolls, small floating leaves of lotus... The asthetics of finding beauty in ordinary, small thing. Since ancient times, as in Zen Buhddism of Hakuin, tea ceremony by Sen-no-Rikyu, and haiku poems by Matsuo Basho, Japanese people have expressed refined beauty, where "sophistication and innocence" coexist. Such Japanese minimalism, "aesthetics of subtraction," has been handed down to contemporary Japanese design.