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Haran tebikigusa

Tenshōsai, Ippa, active 1852-1858 · 1852 · 12 pictures

Haran tebikigusa is a Japanese woodblock manual of ikebana flower arrangement, made by Tenshōsai Ippa and published in 1852 for students of the art. Its pages show spare, numbered line diagrams of sprigs set in vases, bowls and stands, with brief captions and annotations beside each arrangement, which a designer could use as a model for minimal, diagrammatic plant layouts.

Flower arrangement, Japanese

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