Botanical Arts

植物の芸術

Dictionary entry

  1. Bonsai Heian period– / Style

    Japan's living sculpture: the scenery of an ancient tree condensed into a pot. The stylistic vocabulary of trunk line, branch pads and root spread — and care handed across generations — makes time itself the work.

  2. Ikebana 15th century– / Style

    Japan's art of the flower: space composed from plant line and emptiness. From Ikenobō's rikka to free styles, the craft of letting flowers live remains a textbook of asymmetry and negative space.

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