Apedia

Flower Tuan Cut Roots Put Ikebana Ee Ke Bah Nah Ik Uh

Ikebana is the Japanese art of formal flower arrangement, focusing on balance, harmony, and form.

Ikebana is the Japanese art of formal flower arrangement, emphasizing balance and harmony.

Front ikebana \ee-ke-BAH-nah, ik-uh-\
Back noun
The Japanese art of formal flower arrangement with special regard shown to balance, harmony, and form.

[Japanese : ikeru, to arrange + hana, flower.]

"For Alice Tuan, a casual glance at an ikebana, or flower arrangement, book blossomed into her latest play, aptly titled Ikebana. `Flowers get cut off from their roots and are put into a new container,' said the Los Angeles-based Tuan, who is currently a graduate student at Brown University in Rhode Island. `There's something about that metaphor that spoke to me on an immigration level. People are cut from their natural roots of their homeland and are put into a new container that is their new country.'" -  Sam Chu Lin, Immigrant Arrangements, AsianWeek, 19 Dec 1996.

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Lodestar loadstar load-stahr noun star polaris point reference

Previous card: Nisei nee-say noun person born america parents emigrated

Up to card list: Hard English Vocabulary