BEAUTIFUL, LIKE NEW BOOK FULLY IN CHINESE. The ISBN is provided on the copyright page as, 4079199503, which helped me identify the book on Worldcat. The ISBN is, 9784079199506, which is also helpful in identifying other copies of the book. Published by Houn OHARA in 1985.
A STUNNING BOOK IN LIKE NEW CONDITION. The thick glossy slipcase is clean and solid, with no edge wear. The book has clean textured dull yellow cloth boards with red and black spine letters, measures about 14.5" by 10.0", 203 clean and solidly bound glossy pages with many B&W illustrations on pages which appear to be providing instruction, interspersed with beautiful glossy photos of the finished product.
VERY NICE!
From the internet on this school of flower arranging:
"Unshin Ohara founded the Ohara School in the late nineteenth century, when Japan opened itself to the influence of Western culture. He created the Moribana Style, which later led to the School's introduction of the Landscape Arrangement. Compared with the vertical or standing styles of ikebana of the past, in Moribana, flowers are "piled up" (moru) flat plate-like containers. Moribana uses a shallow container and a kenzan, a holder with many sharp points into which flowers are inserted. The big feature of moribana is the broad expanse of natural-looking shapes and a mound of beautiful flowers. While the heika style was developed many centuries ago and has a lot of rules, moribana is only about a hundred years old and is not as fussy. Western flowers can be used, for instance, and the arranged flowers may be placed in Western-style rooms and entranceways--not just in the tokonoma, the alcove of traditional Japanese-style rooms."
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