| Japanese Flower Arrangement |
TREE: Umemodoki or Ilex Serrata
FLOWER: Kiku or Chrysanthemum
The fruits of the branches symbolize all the blessings of the nature. As well as the flowers, they show the season, the time of harvest.
Chrysanthemums are used as the family seal for the Imperial Family and considered sacred in Japan. They are often used for funerals. Various chrysanthemum festivals,exhibitions and contests are held all over Japan.Do you have chrysanthemums in your country? What image do you have of them? What kind of flowers do you use in funerals?
What title would you give this? I'm waiting for your ideas or thoughts.
Some technical points:
(1) In any Japanese art such as Japanese paintings and Japanese style gardens, space is one of the most important factors. Don't fill all the space with flowers.
(2) When you arrange flowers, you are the director and make the role of each material clear.Space, of course, takes an important role. Consider the vase as a stage so that anyone can be a good director with the help of beautiful branches and flowers. Isn't it a wonderful experience?
| "GENTLE BREEZE" TREE: Yukari or Eucalyptus FLOWER: Bara or Rose Rose is the symbol of spring. |
We've been having busy days, haven't we? I hope you will take a break
with this arrangement. The image I want to express is one of balmy days in autumn.
(3) Use three flowers; a full bloomed, a half bloomed and a bud. The full bloomed means the past, the half bloomed, the present, the bud, the future. You will arrange time, the whole time,with those flowers in only one vase.
(4) Imbalance is important in Ikebana. Complete balance means no movement. Imbalance is the key to the energy, the possibility,and the freedom. Don't keep it still, make it move.
| "Happy New Millennium!" TREE:Sangomizuki or coral tree FLOWER: Bara or Rose |
(6)In this arrangement, the base of the trees is in a straight line like the letter" I". It should be like a fan.
| "Waiting for You" TREE: Yukiyanagi or spirae thunbergi FLOWER: Tulip |
| "Power of Land " TREE:Sangomizuki or coral tree FLOWER: Seiyouaburana or rape flower |
Long before spring comes and flowers start to open, land wakes up and keeps giving energy to them even in the coldest days of winters. I'd like to listen to the voice of land and show its powerfulness in the arrangement.
Yukiyanagi literally means "snow willow"in Japanese.
