CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 



HOW TO ARRANGE FLOWERS IN A 

 VASE OF MANY SECTIONS 



TREES are all yo, or masculine, so 

 when they are arranged with any- 

 thing else they must be above, while 

 grasses and flowers, being feminine, can be 

 put down in the lower parts of the arrange- 

 ment. But when your vase is a hanging one, 

 a many-sectioned vase or a double bucket, 

 you may arrange grasses high and trees low. 

 This is because such an arrangement is 

 often supposed to look like a mountain, 

 which has grass growing on its top and trees 

 at its foot and in the valleys. 



A poem comes to mind here which is very 

 dear to all lovers of Ike-bana: 



Musashi no ni 



Kusa makura shite 

 Nagamure ba, Fuji yori takaki 



Tokonatsu no hanna. 



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