일본 전통 꽃꽂이

일본의 가장 권위와 역사를 자랑하는 오하라류의 이케바나는 상당한 기간동안 성장한 단체다.원래 오사카에서 출발하여 이제는 전국 148지국

56개국으로 진출하여 그 위상을 떨치는 일본 전통 꽃꽂이회다. 재미있는 것은 전부 남자들에 의하여 전수된 이케바나라는 점을 주지한다. 현재

5대까지 전부 남자가 전수하는 단체다. 오하라는 가족명이다.

Unshin Ohara (1861-1916), the founder of the Ohara School of Ikebana, was born in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture.
Unshin explored the fields and mountains and tried to develop a style of ikebana to express the beauty of natural scenery. He also searched for ways to arrange the brightly colorful Western flowers that had just begun to be imported into Japan. The result of his efforts was Moribana, the first brilliant step in modern ikebana. In 1897, the first public exhibition of ikebana in the Moribana Style was held.

The Ohara School was officially founded in 1912, and in 1916, Unshin was succeeded by Second Headmaster Koun Ohara (1880-1938), who developed and established set techniques for Moribana. Koun held ikebana exhibitions in public places like department stores, and worked hard to promote Ohara ikebana to the great mass of ordinary people of that time.In addition, he paid considerable attention to developing practical teaching methods and to the systematic classification of expressive techniques. He established clear rules and distinctions for floral styles in Moribana and Heika. He also made a special effort to address large groups of people, using blackboards and microphones and also originated methods of mass instruction like demonstrations before an audience, where he arranged flowers from behind the work so that the audience had a clear view. Almost all contemporary ikebana school have adopted the methods first used by Koun. In his own work, he broke new ground in Nature Moribana, now called landscape Moribana, with his expression of vast scenic views of Hokkaido and his depiction of the appearance of the water’s edge in arrangements of mizumono, which are aquatic plants or plants closely associated with views of water.

小原流

1895年（明治28年）に池坊の門弟であった小原雲心（おはらうんしん）によって創始された（流のはじまりには諸説あるが、当欄では小原流により公式発表されている「雲心が盛花様式を考案した年」1895年を起点とする.1910年（明治43年）大阪府立博物場で花会をして『小原式国風（こくふう）盛花』を名乗り事実上池坊から独立した。流派が世に知られることとなったのは、1912年（大正元年/明治45年）、第1回小原式国風盛り花展を大阪・三越において開いたことに始まる。雲心が生み出した盛花（もりばな）は口の広い水盤に、剣山を置き、花を盛るようにいけるもので、これにより、従来の線的な表現のみならず、面を活かした多様な表現が可能となった。当時の伝統的ないけばな界の人々からは雲心独流、雲心流と風評され認められず、床の間に盛花をいけるのは長襦袢で人前にでるようなものであると辛辣な評価をするものもあった.しかし、伝統的ないけばな界が受け入れなかった洋花を取り入れたり、雲心の盛花は日本の洋風化した生活には適し大衆には急速に受け入れられることとなる。1916年（大正5年）正式に小原流と名乗る.小原雲心の跡を継いだ長男の二世家元小原光雲（おはらこううん）はデパートなど、あらゆる会場を使って展覧会を開き、当時の一般大衆に小原流いけばなを浸透させることに努めた.また、伝統的いけばな界では個人対象に伝授する方法がとられていたが、集団的教授をする方法を取り入れ効率化をすすめ、男性が独占していた教授職を女性にも開放し近代化した。商人を志していたこともある光雲は、経営の才覚に優れ、「いけばなはソロバンなり」との名言を残した.現在、一般財団法人小原流の形態をとり、日本全国に148支部、国外に56支部を有する。