Item 37 - Japanese Flower Arranging

Typescript essay on the art of Japanese flower arranging. Beaton writes that, to Western minds, an almost grotesque amount of thought and effort is applied to the most simple flower arrangements in Japan. Recently, traditional forms of flower arrangement have been influenced by a more modern style. Beaton concludes that, even from a cursory study of Japanese flower arrangement, one can learn much that can be put to good use in one's own home, such as the use of ferns and vegetable leaves that can add padding to the flowers themselves.[c.f. D/2/3/39 and D/2/3/40].