Ikebana arranged as to express peace. All gifts of flowers must be in bud, so that the person to whom they are sent may have the pleasure of seeing them openquite a contrast to the present Western idea of everything being forced to perfection before leaving the florist. The spiritual aspect of "kadō" is considered very important to its practitioners. Some practitioners feel silence is needed while making "ikebana" while others feel this is not necessary. It is a time to appreciate things in nature that people often overlook because of their busy lives. It is believed that one becomes more
Ikebana a March 2015 TEDx in Shimizu, Shizuoka, where he elaborated on the relationship of "ikebana" to beauty. Another practitioner is the Hollywood actress Marcia Gay Harden, who started when she was living in Japan as a child. She has published a book about it with her works. There are over 1,000 different types of schools of "ikebana" throughout the world today. A school is normally headed by an "iemoto", oftentimes passed down within a family from one generation to the next. Some of the most historic and well-known schools are: "Ikenobō" goes back to the 700s CE of the Heian