The Flower Art of Japan
By Mary Averill
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Averill, also known as Kwashinsai Kiyokumei, was proficient in the Japanese art of ikebana and the author of Japanese Flower Arrangement Applied to Western Needs. Averill embraced all the varied schools of Japanese flower arrangement, focusing on those producing the most attractive decorative effects and those exhibiting natural taste. She provides both novices and experienced flower arrangers with an informed and accessible guide to incorporating the beauty of this timeless art form into their everyday lives.
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The Flower Art of Japan - Mary Averill
THE
FLOWER
ART
OF
JAPAN
THE
FLOWER
ART
OF
JAPAN
MARY AVERILL
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Mineola, New York
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by John Lane Company, New York, and John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, in 1915. The original color frontispiece and the front and back endpapers have been reproduced here in black-and-white.
International Standard Book Number
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82418-5
ISBN-10: 0-486-82418-7
Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications
82418701 2018
www.doverpublications.com
TO ALL WHO LOVE FLOWERS SILENT EXPONENTS OF THE BEAUTIFUL
INTRODUCTION
SINCE the friendly greeting of Japanese Flower Arrangement
I feel justified in supplementing and completing the subject.
In the first treatment of an art so little known, one hardly dares venture beyond the rudiments. Now, however, being assured that there are those as interested as myself, I shall endeavor to carry them farther in this delightful study, only wishing that it were possible to create a stronger desire on the part of my readers to apply these Japanese ideas practically. For gradually we discover by the constant study of our flower arranging that we are beautifying all that touches our lives.
The difficult problem of elimination becomes simplified and we find our possessions in the way of household belongings placing themselves more attractively as the final result of closer application to this art.
With each return to Japan, I have longed to become a convert to one school of flower arrangement in particular. Still the deeper I probe into the numerous schools I find it utterly impossible to advocate any one school exclusively. There is good and valuable information to be found in them all. The various schools of flower arrangement are like the different creeds of the Christian religion: agreeing in the essentials and only disagreeing in the non-essentials; the points of difference creating the possibility to form new schools. On occasions I have found myself narrowing down to the research of one school, when suddenly I have had my attention called to some principle or suggestion from another school, so practical and valuable in enhancing the beauty of the arranging of cut flowers, that in spite of the assurance of the many masters at whose feet it has been my privilege to sit, that their particular school contains all the virtues, I cannot honestly agree with them. I have narrowed down after many years of study on each school, to a very small number of schools, but, should I attempt to settle upon one only I would defeat my purpose and pleasure of bringing to the people of my own land the best and most helpful suggestions in this Japanese Flower Art.
All the schools can be divided under two heads: those producing wonderful decorative effects, and those which exhibit natural taste.
The two schools which follow nature most closely are Ikenobu and Ko-Shin-Ryu. It is to these two schools I owe my greatest inspiration. Both of these schools look upon nature as the most helpful guide in forming their rules and producing