Lesson 4: Moribana Style

Upright style

This style is the standard and most common floral style for Moribana. It exudes a feeling of stability and gravity.

In this style, the primary stem “subject” is about as long as the diameter and depth of the container, with secondary stem being around two-third and the object stem about half the length of the primary stem.

Slanting Style

This style is a floral form that expresses the beauty of branches and grasses that grow slanting down.

This floral form evokes a greater sense of movement than the Upright style.

In this style, the lengths of the subject and the object are same as Upright Style, but the length of the secondary is half of the subject.

This style is a reversed arranging style that can be used depending on the placement of the display and shapes of the branches. Branches that look beautiful when slanted are mostly chosen for this arrangement.

Water-Reflecting style ( will be demonstrated in next class)

In this style, subject is placed to slant over and casts its reflection in the water.

It is called the Water-Reflecting Style, because the subject, secondary and object are positioned closely so that water surface feels spacious.

The length of this style is just same as Slanting Style.

This form is one of the three advanced Hana-isho. The main point is to create the basic framework of circular movement with flowers as the subject, the secondary and the object. And arrangement of more of the same flowers as Filler stems, carefully observing the direction of the flowers and positioning them to support the main stems.