# Sakura, Gold And Silver

There are the golden pavilion and the silver pavilion in Kyoto.
They represent two contrasting ideals.

The former is like the sun. It is noble, refined, elegant, pure,
clean, otherworldly, transcendental. The latter is like the moon.
It is natural, transient, harmonic, seasonal, but yet abstract and
spiritual.

I think sakura represents the golden mean between them. It is pure
and elegant but impermanent. Mono no Aware. Conversely it is natural
and seasonal but pretty and refined. Unlike Wabi-Sabi which is
rustic.