Present The Whole Beauty of Plant Life
『Why not destroy flowers if therby we can envolve new forms ennobling the world ideas?We only ask them to join in our sacrifice to the beautiful.
We shall atone for the deed by consecrating ourselves to Purity and Simplicity.
Thus reasoned the tea-masters when they established the Cult of Flowers.
Anyone acquainted with the ways of our tea- and flower-masters must have noticed the religious venerarion with which they regard flowers.
They do not cull at random, but carefully select each branch or spray with an eye to the artstic composition they have in mind.
They would be ashemed should they chance to cut more than were absolutely necessary.
It may be remarked in this connection that they always associate the leaves, if there be any, with the flowers, for their object is to present the whole beauty of plant life.
In this respect, as in many others, their method differs from that pursued in Western countries.
Here we are apt to see only the flower stems, heads, as it were, without body, stuck
promiscuously into a vase. 』
(From the Book of Tea-Flowers, pp.98-100, Charles E. Tuttles Co., Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan)
The critical differences of ideas against the attitude to Nature are clear through the Flower arrangements between Oriental and Western countries .
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