Modern Japanese Ikebana: Elegant Flower Arrangements for Your Home (Contains 42 Projects)

A modern approach to traditional Japanese floral design.

Award-winning flower designer Shinichi Nagatsuka explains how anyone can create beautiful arrangements using his signature N Style method. Easy to follow, it is based on accent lines rather than the complex system of rules used for traditional Ikebana.

Accent lines are the natural shapes of the flowers themselves—which means vertical arrangements require a different eye than horizontal or round ones, for example. By understanding how th...