Etienne Desclides

The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means “blur” or “haze”, or boke-​aji (ボケ味), the “blur quality”. The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility. The term bokashi (暈かし) is related, meaning intentional blurring or gradation.