| The big feature of Moribana is the broad expanse of natural-looking shapes and a mound of beautiful flowers. While the Heika style was developed many centuries ago and has a lot of rules, Moribana is only about a hundred years old and is not as fussy. Western flowers can be used, for instance, and the arranged flowers may be placed in Western-style rooms and entranceways - not just in the tokonoma, the alcove of traditional Japanese-style rooms. Moribana is ikebana where materials are arranged as if they are piled up in low flat containers with a wide surface area of water. It includes the Color Scheme Moribana, which expresses beauty of color, and the Landscape Moribana, in which the beauty of natural scenery is represented. An artist can express a wide range of images and impressions and above all, create natural landscape views. |
