My Feelings Toward Cut Flowers

For a flower that has lost its roots and the earth and become a cut flower, standing tall on its own is no longer possible. That, surely, is why humans devised tools like vases and water basins for arranging cut flowers, and kenzan (needle-point holders) for making them stand.

In other words, vases, water basins, and tools are things that can stand in for roots and the earth.

Although the environments and habitats of flowers blooming in the natural world are so varied, the forms of vases and water basins seem to me to change little and to offer scant variation. Are cut flowers really satisfied with the existing vases and basins?

As fellow living things, I want to give cut flowers, too, vessels rich in variation that can stand in for roots and the earth.

And when we, who live together with the flowers arranged in those vessels, sometimes bring rain (giving water), invite the wind (changing the air), give sun (thinking of a sunny spot suited to the flower), and become insects and animals (the acts and behaviors needed in the food chain), the cut flowers will surely feel greater happiness.