Lesson 7: Color Scheme and Landscape Moribana

1. Identify the differences between Color Scheme Moribana and Landscape Moribana..

2. Demonstrate the arrangements for both moribana style.

1. Lesson 7 Outline

2. Examples of this week's arrangements:

• • The Rising Form in a Tall Vase

  • The Traditional Landscape Moribana (Far View Upright style)

  • The Traditional Landscape Moribana (Middle View Slanting Style)

  • The Traditional Landscape Moribana (Near View Upright Style)

  • Landscape Demonstration Video

  • The Upright Style

• MORE INSTRUCTOR EXAMPLES (as of September 2020)

I have instructed on the basic and advance styles of Hana-isho and Color Scheme Moribana: “upright style, Slanting style and Water-reflecting style” in Color Method” from lesson I through lesson VI.

1.Review the arrangement of Color Scheme Moribana :

The reason I am repeating instructions on these two styles (upright style and slanting style) is that they are the basic styles of Landscape Moribana. Without mastering these two styles, it will be very difficult for you to arrange the Landscape Moribana. Usually, it will take 4-5 years for students to get the level for arranging The Landscape Moribana.

2. Instruct the Landscape Moribana:

The Landscape Moribana arrangement captures the natural scenic setting and reinterprets it within the framework of ikebana. Landscape Moribana has two methods, one is The Traditional Method and the other one is the Realistic Method.

This method is a form of Ikebana which, while respecting the seasonal character and natural growth patterns of plants, uses an established range of materials and fixed methods of arrangement to express the beauty of natural scene.

The Landscape Moribana is divided into three views: Far , Middle and Near. There are two styles in The Landscape Moribana: “Upright and Slanting”.

Next, I’d like to explain about The Realistic Method. In this method, the artist expresses scenic beauty through an understanding the natural growth of characteristics of the plants, the environment and the seasonal aspect of materials.

The big difference between The Landscape Method and The Realistic Method is that there are subject, secondary and object in The Traditional Method, but The Realistic Method has no such a distinction.

Ikebana for Everybody by The council of Ohara Professors.

The Traditional Ikebana of the Ohara School by Houn Ohara.

Mitsuko Takeya 5/21/2020