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| | Arrangements - Oriental Manner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Except in rose societies where there are students of ikebana, we seldom find classes calling for shoka which consists of, at its most fundamental, three lines of different lengths rising gracefully from the same point of emergence, and pursuing different directions, their tips forming a scalene triangle. |
 | | Nagiere and moribana also are composed of three main lines whose tips form a scalene triangle, plus subordinate lines, but the lines may emerge from different points on the pinholder. |
 | | Generally, moribana is done in a low container; nagiere in a tall container; shoka and rikka in an in-between container, though modern practice may deviate from this. |
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