By Chiori Miyagawa. I have been terrified to even put down the word 幽玄. I had to ask Google to write these characters for me. According to Google Translate, yugen means "subtle and profound." Looking at the unfamiliar characters, I would have guessed "ghostly." For the first time in decades, I looked for the Japanese dictionary that I brought with me when I left Japan alone at age sixteen.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PM on July 25, 2014