Beausage

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Ever notice that certain character or beauty that things attain purely because they are used so often? I've touched upon it before in Do Things Have Souls?.  Espescially "things" made of genuine materials and that our bodies come in contact with.  Think about it.  Are not clothes, for example, a second layer of skin and develop character as they wear in certain places according to repeated usage?   Your favorite pair of well-worn blue jeans, leather baseball glove, leather shoes or leather bicycle saddle for example.
 

This character or beauty derived from repeated usage over the course of time is often referred to as "beausage".

Tools too, since they are simply temporary body parts, i.e., they are extensions of the body used to perform a task, turn a screw, hold a nut, cut a thread, etc. The User is the force and control behind the tool, thus the tool is simply an extension of the body take on a form of beausage over time. 
 
Part of this beausage is mottainai-shugi (practically a religion based on a deep belief that it is shameful and a sin to waste things, and things must be repaired over and over until it can no longer be repaired to fulfill its original purpose, and even then, instead of tossing it out, show respect and gratitude by repurposing it, ie giving it a new life).