Rear Spring Journal — Shoka RSS

Shoka can be broadly classified into shin, gyo, and so styles. Differences among these styles reflect variations in character and natural growing forms among plants, space for displaying the arrangement and use of different containers as well.

Understanding the difference of Ikebana Containers and Vases is the first step to learning the practice of Ikebana: Three basic Ikebana categories of Shoka, Moribana and Nageire and the use of three different forms of Ikebana container.