Post by Sō Haruko on Jul 18, 2012 18:26:52 GMT -5
I picked this book up on a whim at my local library book sale. A pretty good find for 75‘!
Japanese Flower Arrangement Notebook is by Patricia Kroh, a skilled flower arranger, columnist, and flower judge. She spent several years in Japan studying the art of ikebana in four different schools, ranging from traditional to modern.
The book covers notes and photographs from her time in Japan, and explains how each of the schools approaches constructing an ikebana arrangement. It discusses the different formalities of arrangements, appropriate plant containers, and appropriate times of the year for the various styles. It is a thoughtfully constructed resource that can definitely be used as a how-to manual to get started with ikebana.
It does address some of our time period and talks about the history of ikebana, though that is not the focus of the book. It would be very easy to extrapolate ideas for a lovely and reasonably-period-looking arrangement for your encampment, though you would certainly wish to spend more time documenting it beyond this book for an A&S entry.
It is worth mentioning that the book was written in 1962, and therefore does have some of the quaintness associated with that era, and some of the confusion on the author's part that goes along with the west-meets-east nature of the book. I still found it to be a good and useful read. It includes a bibliography of books in English, as well.
Japanese Flower Arrangement Notebook is by Patricia Kroh, a skilled flower arranger, columnist, and flower judge. She spent several years in Japan studying the art of ikebana in four different schools, ranging from traditional to modern.
The book covers notes and photographs from her time in Japan, and explains how each of the schools approaches constructing an ikebana arrangement. It discusses the different formalities of arrangements, appropriate plant containers, and appropriate times of the year for the various styles. It is a thoughtfully constructed resource that can definitely be used as a how-to manual to get started with ikebana.
It does address some of our time period and talks about the history of ikebana, though that is not the focus of the book. It would be very easy to extrapolate ideas for a lovely and reasonably-period-looking arrangement for your encampment, though you would certainly wish to spend more time documenting it beyond this book for an A&S entry.
It is worth mentioning that the book was written in 1962, and therefore does have some of the quaintness associated with that era, and some of the confusion on the author's part that goes along with the west-meets-east nature of the book. I still found it to be a good and useful read. It includes a bibliography of books in English, as well.