🔻Ikebana is Ikebana🔻 “Ikebana—so often called Japanese flower arranging—what a tragically misleading term! It lulled me into believing it bore a close kinship to Western floristry, as if the two were simply different dialects of the same floral language.” But ikebana is, well, ikebana—just as bonsai is not merely ‘Japanese tree pruning.’ It has its own philosophy, its own rhythm, its own quiet conversation between nature and arranger that no mere translation can capture. That said, can florist