Ikebana room decoration and commenced in a rudimentary way to consider natural beauty in floral arrangement. At this time "ikebana" was known as "rikka". This same age conceived another form called "nageirebana". "Rikka" and "nageirebana" are the two branches into which "ikebana" has been divided. Popularity of the two styles vacillated between these two for centuries. In the beginning, "rikka" was stiff, formal, and more decorative while "nageirebana" was simpler and more natural. Although "nageirebana" began to come into favour in the Higashiyama period, "rikka" was still preferred, and "nageirebana" did not truly gain popularity until the Momoyama period, about a
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