Japanese Designs In Floral Design

So apparently, the Japanese favor lots of negative spaces in this floral design work. They have 3 main lines in their designs: heaven (the highest), man (in the middle-ish part) and earth (Extending lower than the rest of the design. In America, rather than have 3 flowers and call it good (which they might do in Japan) we add more substance to the 3 main lines, but also try to follow the theme. Here is an example, which I am happy to say I created, of Japanese floral design. By the way, it is like 3 feet tall because of the curly willow branch that serves as the "heaven" line and was definitely interesting to carry around campus. I got some funny looks, to be sure.

Here is close of the center portion of the design. Though you can't see all that I did, I was happy with how it turned out.