Ikebana~~~

Today I am going to talk about Ikebana(japanese flower arranging)..
Ikebana have a history of over 600 years.It is one of the Japanese major cultures and is very popular in japan.
School children are taught the art of ikebana in school and there are also ikebana classes held by professional ikebana teachers everywhere in japan.

Ikebana is not just to put flowers into a vase but to enable the arranger to imbue the arrangement with some meaning or personal expression.
My daughter did her ikebana at school recently and this is one of her creation.I put this ikebana of hers in my house main entrance.

As the japanese always believes that you can tell the feelings and charater of the person by viewing his or her ikebana,by the way of how ,he or she arranged her flowers..

A very good example is by looking at my ikebana of our chinese new year plants..pussy willow..
See how they turn out ..hahaha...my children says they looks like lonely skeleton sticks in a vase...hahahahhaa...

Well ,I better try to improve my ikebana in future..hehe..coz so pity my "happy buddha" sitting next to my so called" lonely skeleton sticks (pussy willow)in a vase."..hahahhaha...