Miyabi

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For the Japanese AV actress also known as Miyabi, see Maria Ozawa.

For the Japanese musician and member of the band Dué le Quartz, see Miyavi.

For the Japanese singer and member of the groups Berryz Kobo and Buono!, see Miyabi Natsuyaki.

Miyabi (雅) is one of the traditional Japanese aesthetic ideals, though not as prevalent as Iki or Wabi-sabi. In modern Japanese, the word is usually translated as "elegance," "refinement," or "courtliness".

The ideal posed by the word demanded the decline of anything that was absurd or vulgar and the "polishing of manners, diction, and feelings to eliminate all roughness and crudity so as to achieve the highest grace." It depicted that sensitivity to beauty was the hallmark of the Heian era and since to the Japanese culture.