Word: sabie
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Such objects are, of course, at the opposite pole of sensibility from the ideas of wabi and sabi-"artless" simplicity, near-invisible interferences with nature - which are the root of much Japanese art. These are court art, raised to an intimidating level of egotism: a feudal lord displayed his power and wealth in the costumes of his Nō troupe. Apart from the kind of tie-dyeing used for some kimonos, which took a year to tie and another year to unpick, these robes probably consumed more expert human labor than any other garments in history. The weavers might finish...
...Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals of the samurai class by repeating, in the aesthetic sphere, the discipline and frugality of a warrior's life...