The history of IKEBANA

The origins of IKEBANA, the Japanese way of flower arrangement, is generally from KUGE of Buddhism, which are flower offerings for buddhist altar, or also from YORISHIRO, the Japanese old custom, ancestors stood evergreens to invite spirits of gods. Anyway, we Japanese have a unique way of thinking for the greens and flowers and it led us to inherit and develop the IKEBANA culture.

IKEBANA surrely appears in the literature and reports from Muromachi era – the end of the 14th century to the middle of the fifteenth century- . in this era, the people created and developed a lot of Japanese original culture like Shoin-Zukuri (the traditional style of Japanese residential architecture), Teien (the traditional style of Japanese gardens), the Renga (a linked poem), Nougaku (the traditional theatrical art), Chanoyu (a tea ceremony), and so on.