Ikebana
生け花 / 15th century– / Style / Botanical Arts
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.
Composition by line / Asymmetric balance / Designed emptiness / Season and decay accepted
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Ikenobō Sen'ō Kuden / Sōgetsu and avant-garde ikebana / the contrast with Western floristry