Christmas ikebana on the background of traditional Japanese screens

Passing the gallery

Text: Dilara Muradova

A photo: Alexey Vladimirov

Florist: Tatyana Zadvornaya

Magazine: Na (58) 2002

After the piling up of forms and brightness of color, symbolism, understatement and laconism return - the original features of Japanese art. Especially for the Eastern New Year - New Year ikebana against the background of traditional Japanese screens Recently, the influence of Japan is felt not only in the world of fashion and design. The world-famous florists of Europe are increasingly turning their attention to the East, to the Terra Incognita of Japanese culture. Centuries of history in combination with the attitude to nature peculiar only to the Japanese have created the one-of-a-kind art of arranging flowers. Ikebana embodied the inviolability of the eternal laws of the universe and at the same time the elusive beauty of every moment of being. In the complex semantics of ikebana, the West discovered forever a seemingly lost harmony. Simplicity as a sign of originality, perfection, brevity and depth - the philosophical principles contained in the aesthetics of ikebana - turned out to be relevant to the modern civilization of Europe. Tatyana Zadvornaya, master of Sogetsu ikebana school, included in the winter Christmas compositions branches of green pine, personifying wisdom and longevity, chrysanthemums - a symbol of dignity and eternal youth, orchids and fruits (formerly obligatory offering to the altar of the Buddha) - as a wish for joy and happiness .