The term sabi occurs often in the Manyōshū, where it has a connotation of desolateness (sabireru means "to become desolate"), and later on it seems to acquire the meaning of something that has aged well, grown rusty (another word pronounced sabi means "rust"), or has acquired a patina that makes it beautiful.
12 min: Well, my rusty fingers have been well and truly rebaptised by this firecracker of a Uefa Cup tie.
To make her assemblages, which are of theater-set scale, she hauls large sections of fallen trees into her studio, as well as rusty, castoff bits of farm equipment like old dairy cow stanchions, whose ominous, spiky forms bring to mind the painful way such devices confine animals to their stalls.
He nodded and went to the well, sent the rusty bucket down into the dark.
Investigators recovered a BB gun as well as a rusty 9 mm pistol on the street in Watertown where the Tsarnaevs fought a heated battle with police three days after the attack.
Combined with stunning selections of music and video-like pulsing punctuations of the action, MTO portrays a beauty and sadness; as well as the rusty sharp edge of a knife cutting both ways, revealing the real violence of a culture lying just underneath its skin.
Ferries between the islands ranged in quality from a modern hydrofoil to rusty, well-worn but serviceable craft.
For example, "I have a big red wagon" would not take commas, while "I have a rusty, well-loved wagon" would.
Walking along the riverfront corniche, the pride of Luxor, we hopped aboard the rusty and well-worn old ferry in which local workers commute back and forth across the Nile.
"He did some things well, but obviously, he was rusty".
