Forest Harmony

This arrangement is known as landscape Moribana in which natural landscapes like forest, hills and rivers are represented using the minimum space of the containers. A keen observer of scenic beauty would be very successful in mixing the material and arranging the landscape very near to the actual scene imagined.

Flowers of Victory

This flower arrangement / Ikebana is arranged in such a way that it represents victory.

Oriental Serendipity

A silver tray displays a Sogetsu arrangement of dwarf umbrella tree branches and aromatic oriental lilies. Cannon ball tree branches can also be used.

Autumn Winter Arrangement

The trees change to a beautiful gold and rust color in Autumn and as they fall revel the intricate shapes of the branches they hung on for that year.  This Ohara style flower arrangement is done using dried twigs, nuts and leaves.

Fruit Flowers and Light

This is Dutch style of flower arrangement.  The materials used range from fruits, flowers and candles.  The different hues of flowers and fruits complement each other with candles lighting up the arrangement.  This arrangement is perfect during Diwali.

Driftwood Composition

This flower arrangement is styled in Sogetsu style of Ikebana, where driftwood, zerbaras, asparagus, money plant, tuberoses vie for attention.  Subtle colors bring out the character of the driftwood to compose an arrangement that makes the watcher drift into calmness.

Shell Bloom

This flower arrangement is from the Sogetsu school of Ikebana.

Sunrise

Flower Gerberas represents Sun very well in a flower arrangement.  This Ikebana is a variation of the Shoka style called Niju-ike, where the arrangment is done on two different levels in a double bamboo container.

Ohara school of Ikebana

Ohara school of Ikebana was started earlier than So-Getsu school.   Unshin Ohara (1861-1916), the founder of the Ohara School of Ikebana, was born in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture. He slowly adapted the western flowers that made its way into the Japanese markets into his arrangements thus inventing Moribana in 1900. Moribana released flower arrangements from [...]

So-Getsu school of Ikebana

After Ohara school, So-Getsu school of Ikebana was founded in 1928 by Sofu Teshigahara. It is one of the best-known schools of flower arrangement in Japan. In this style driftwood and other dry materials are used for floral compositions. In this art, there is always an awareness of the cosmic forces. The spirit of the [...]