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Saying it with flowers - the Japanese way
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Ikebana bestows life, recreates flower wealth and takes us close to nature, writes Swathi. V.
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The relevance of greenery is most often presumed to be outside the home. Nowadays, the concept is undergoing a seachange with the scarcity of space becoming the hallmark of our ever-expanding-but-never-accommodative city.
Flower arrangement is most often associated with boardrooms and five-star hotels simply because those commercially grown bunches of roses and gladioli just refuse to fit in the middle class wallet. An effective alternative is in Ikebana, the Japanese art of recreating flower wealth world in dainty containers.
Ikebana is very much different from the conventional western arrangements as it is not based on the massing of flowers and foliage in symmetrical fashion. A freshly picked twig entwined to a straight rod of dried wood can as well make a pleasant Ikebana arrangement that will sure steal hearts and stay in them too.
“Based on the three precepts of minimalism, asymmetry and imitation of nature, Ikebana nevertheless makes it a point to imbibe all the principles of aesthetics such as harmony, balance, rhythm and depth,” says Ohryu Rekha Reddy, the 2nd Master of Ohara Ikebana (Ph: 23608187) from Jubilee Hills. Containers for Ikebana could be as varied as those toz be contained in them. Baskets, glass bowls, ceramics, plastics or bottles— or for that matter, anything which can hold water may be used for the arrangements.
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