It is said that knowing the Dado would be the key to understanding the Japanese culture. Dado involves serving guests with one's mental attitude as a once-in-a-life time experience and with respect, and to decorate arrangement with seasonal touch. Although currently existing Dado group has varying Demae, Senrikue is the most followed and respected. Therefore, it would be meaningful to look over Nambangrok intergrating the root of the Senrikue. Dado can also be said as an 'art of purposeful gathering'. It pursues mind interaction through quietness rather than splendidness. Wabi is feeling the sense of beauty through natural, simple, unbalanced, imperfect Dashil and Dado tools, and therefore Dado is called Wabicha. Wabi before Wabi tea could not establish its meaning by itself. It is only used as expressing feelings of loss and disappointment. However, the meaning got extended to Japanese beauty expressing the mood of entrusting oneself into nature and adapting to imperfection and inadequateness. Wabi is not a set meaning but it emphasizes natural beauty, not disobeying reasonableness, or sometimes, it also means liveliness, depending on the situation. I believe Dado is a training to find beauty in the imperfection of everyday life. Wabi in Dado is the core mental state of Japanese, who perceives restraining one's feelings to be the best possible beauty. One does Dado in hopes of becoming honest, thoughtful and not arrogant. This is the very purpose of Wabi and through this thirstiness of body as well as soul is satisfied. As Samurai purified his mind with tea during the war, we living in the present also need 'tea' as purification.
본 한국일본학회는 일본관련 학회로는 1973년에 한국 최초로 성립되어 2015년 3월 현재 가입회원수 기준 1000여명에 달하는 방대한 학회로 발전하였다. 본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본학은 물론,일본의교육,사상,역사,민속 등 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구와 한일간의 일본학 전반에 걸친 비교 연구를 대상으로 하는 학회로서 회원들의 연구기회 제공과 정보의 교류를 주된 목표로 하고 있다. 분회 발표를 포함하여 매년 20회 가까운 학술발표회와 국제학술대회를 개최 함으로서 발표 기회의 제공과 함께 회원 상호간의 친목 도모의 장으로도 활용하며 건전한 학회발전을 지향하고 있다.