Yojo(resonance)・Mujo(impermanence)

　”Who in this world can remain unchanged?” (from Iroha-uta- traditional Japanese alphabet song)
“The sound of hte Gion Shoja bels echoes the impermanence of al things.” (from The Tale oftheHeike)

“Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the passing water is never the same.” (from Hojoki)

Mujo means impermanence, the”constant changing” of things.

　In a land continually struck by disasters of al kinds that cannot be predicted and are not subject to human will, the Japanese have come to feel that events are not controlled by the will of any single entity. Instead, they believe that each and every fragment in time carries with it the potential of all possibilities, coming into existence, changing, and passing, one after another, in unbroken streams. And in between the scattered memories, within the blank intervals between the remnant images left behind after an event has occurred, vestiges of emotions not obliterated by time remain. The Japanese are very fond of using these residual feelings, called yojo, as a means of communication.