Yankun

Good afternoon classmates and teacher

Today I am gong to present my topic ikebana

Ikebana is a Japanese style of flower arrangement ; and the word ikebana is actually made up by two Japanese words  ikeru (生ける) and hana (花), which give it the meaning of flower with life

It is said that ikebana came from china In the century of 7th BC when the Japanese envoys visited china. This ancient art became popular after the introduction of Buddhism to japan.

According to the Buddhism that ikebana represents the respect to gods and the dead spirit which becomes the original style of ikebana ----RIKKA, in which the artist is required to place 3 standing stems in a simple but symmetrical balanced pattern in a tall vase (mainly bronzed). It may sound very common and usual but instead this delicate and sophisticated art needs the flower to be measured and poised precisely. For example the main stem must stand upright and the supportive have to be placed according to the pattern and curl back to symmetry axis. in this way they can together show the harmony of universe and human

With the growing popularity and the evolution of ikebana itself ,ordinary people stand a chance to have such art in their daily life and together with chado , another kind of ikebana is derived (diverged )----- Chabana , it is much simpler than RIKKA as CHABANA emphasizes the rustic simplicity and what it requires is only casual composition of difference kinds of flowers . it also brought the idea to other later styles , Nageire and “ thrown-in “

In the age Edo ( from 1600 – 1868 ) , the economy in japan had grown rapidly and to cater for the official needs of decoration , Seika or Shōka

Is created. This new-formed style comprises an asymmetrically triple structure with 3 main stems. It sticks to the rules that these three stems connect the three elements: the earth, human, and the heaven respectively though the stems can vary.

Another kind of ikebana, the Jiyūka, is...