Noun
mono no aware (uncountable)
A wistful awareness of the impermanence or transience of things.
Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softness, gentleness, reticence. Disappearing and then appearing again in the early summer greenery, they have in them that feeling for the poignant beauty of things long characterized by the Japanese as mono no aware. Yasunari Kawabata