The flower arranger magazine1/7/2024 In contrast, Free Style, which has no set patterns or rules on how plant materials should be used, expresses the individual creativity and mood of the arranger, who is free to pick based on color, shape or texture alone. Moribana, which arranges plants to give a sense of volume and depth, literally means “pile up” plants. “Though flowers and branches cannot speak, their expression in ikebana is like that of a poem.” Shin should be two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half times the height of the vase, tai is one-third the height of shin, while soe is two-thirds the height of shin. Its three parts – shin, a branch and its central element, is placed first tai is placed low and in front of shin soe is behind shin – represent the heavens, earth and man, respectively. Shoka, a simple arrangement of three main parts, conveys the growth of plants reaching upward toward the sky, using plant materials in a natural way. The most representative style is r ikka, a complex arrangement of seven to nine parts that represents the magnificence of nature in a landscape of mountain peaks, streams and villages. There are also four basic styles of ikenobo. All plant materials are carefully placed to bring out the essence of the plants and present an ideal image of nature, without one element outshining the others. Leaves and branches are as important as flowers in ikebana. Photo: Johanna und Heinz Günter Saemann/Flickr The same surname is no coincidence: the same family has been head priests of the temple and headmasters of ikebono for almost 500 years. The philosophy behind ikebana was established in the 16 th century by Senno Ikebono. The word ikebana means “flowers arranged according to rule.” Ikenobo literally means “priest’s hut next to the pond,” because the Buddhist monks who made flower offerings at the altar of Buddha at Kyoto’s Rokkakudo Temple, where ikebana began, lived in small huts. “Ikebana is born of nature’s harmony, of the richness of the human spirit, and of a refined and sensitive appreciation for beauty,” writes Sen’ei Ikenobo in The Book of Ikebana. Ikenaba is deeply grounded in the Japanese reverence for nature and Buddhist beliefs. In a few minutes, the “busy-ness” of the American bouquets was pared down to something simple, slender, delicate, graceful and sculptural. Ikenobo, the oldest and biggest of Japan’s ikebana schools, was founded in Kyoto in the 15th century. Kenny, who has done ikebana arrangements for weddings and is also an artist who does Chinese brush-style water colors of flowers, studied at the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America in San Francisco, where she lives, after she fell in love with Asian floral art forms decades ago.
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