Ikebana Moribana Shallow Arrangement

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Moribana - Shallow Style

The moribana style, meaning "stacked up" or "piled-up flowers," is a style of ikebana that uses a shallow container known as a "suiban," with flowers and twigs being arranged vertically or horizontally. The moribana style was created by Ohara Unshin of the Ohara school of ikebana, and its motifs follow the traditional Japanese method of landscape depiction.

With the moribana style of ikebana, flowers, bamboo and twigs are held in place within the shallow suiban using a kenzan support ("frog" or "needlepoint holder"), or held in place using florist's wire, glass marbles, rocks or pebbles, and floral foam.

Horizontal & Curved 'Moribana Style' of Ikebana

Vertical 'Moribana Style' of Ikebana

Moribana Ikebana Styles - Horizontal, Vertical, & Curved Arrangments

Within the two basic forms governed by container shape, ikebana falls into six sub-forms based on the arrangement of the three lines. These forms are referred to as the curved line, geometric line, horizontal line, natural or random line, manipulated line, and vertical line arrangements.