Lesson 8: The Landscape Moribana

1. Demonstrate the arrangement of The Traditional Landscape Method.

2. Learn new styles of Ikebana which are “Hana-Mai” and “ Hana-Kanade”.

1. Lesson 8 Outline

2. Examples of this week's arrangement:

• • Hanakanade Diagram

  • Hanakanade Example #1

  • Hanakande Example #2 (July 2020)

  • Hanakanade Demonstration Video

  • Hanamai #1 (Dancing Flower) Example

  • Hanamai #2 (August 2020)

  • Hanamai #3 (August 2020)

  • Hanamai (Dancing Flower) Demonstration Video

• MORE INSTRUCTOR EXAMPLES (as of September 2020)

This traditional Method relies on observation of natural growth and seasonal aspect.

One of most important principles in this method of arrangement is perspective depiction.

In order to express the beauty of a natural scene, the first problem that must be solved is that of composing the scene in the limited space of the container. Recreating a natural scene in a container is similar to making a sketch. In Ikebana, this must be done with real plants and is accomplished through the technique of perspective depiction.

The three views of Moribana, as mentioned in the previous lesson are: Far, Middle and Near.

In this Traditional Method, there are subject, secondary and object, but the Realistic Method has no such a distinction, but it is very difficult to collect materials to arrange the Realistic Method of the Landscape arrangement, therefore, I’d like to skip to instruct this style this time.

This style maybe called dancing Flower, because HAN means Flower and MAI means Dance.

Hanamai expresses the beauty of plants brought out by their mutual intersection in three-dimensional space.

There is no distinction between main materials and auxiliary materials.

Hanamai does not have fixed rules as to the length of stems. In fact, there are no rules governing the size, angle, or direction of materials.

To capture the sculptural beauty of the materials themselves leads naturally to the expression of three-dimensional beauty in Hanamai.

Kanade means playing some musical instrument, so I assume this style is to arrange the flowers like playing some music.

This style is a three-dimensional arrangement that expresses the beauty of crossing principal stems.

Different from Hanamai style, there are some rules in this style regarding the length:

a. Subject: one and half times the container measurement.

b. Secondary: from 3/4 to the equal the length of the subject.

c. Object: from 2/3 to 3/4 the length of the subject.

*Reference to Ikebana for everybody by Ohara School of Ikebana and also pictures from same book

Below are the arrangements featured in the different Zoom sessions for this week.