Meet Japan’s new wave of extreme minimalists
Posted by staff / June 24, 2016
Is there anything quite like the freedom of an empty room, full of nothing but possibilities?
Whereas most of us would picture how we’d arrange furniture, books, and toys, a growing movement of extreme minimalists in Japan prefers to keep it “uncomfortably” spare.
As Katsura Toyoda — who only has a table and a futon in his 230-square-foot apartment — explains:
“It’s not that I had more things than the average person, but that didn’t mean that I valued or liked everything I owned. I became a minimalist so I could let things I truly liked surface in my life.”
Even some young families are eschewing the excessive trappings of childhood, and learning how to do more with less.
Though not to everyone’s taste, these stories provide excellent motivation for cleaning out the house.
Full story at Treehugger.
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