This beautiful flower vase is a Japanese design with a somewhat atypical function: you can use it to hold wild grasses and flowers you find outside.
Michi-kusa with wild flowers
Did you stop yourself from picking grasses with pretty flowers when you go out for a walk because you think you won’t be able to use them to decorate your home? Now, with Dmc’s Michi-Kusa, a flower vase of Japanese design, you can use wild flowers to decorate all sorts of spaces.
These flowers aren’t usually all that sophisticated. On the contrary, they’re rather simple if we compare them with the flowers sold in flower shops. But they have their charm. You’ve probably wanted to take them home with you at some point... but sometimes it’s hard to find a suitable container to hold them, because wild flowers are often quite fragile. Michi-Kusa is especially designed to hold wild flowers. It’s a flower vase of Japanese design that’s very small and made of glass. It’s shape was inspired by Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
Ikebana normally uses kenzan, which is a lead platform with loads of sharp nails that hold the flowers’ stems. Michi-Kusa has a similar platform, but instead of nailing the flowers, you just hold them up by fitting them between the sticks. Plus the sticks are irregularly spaced, so they can hold different sized stems.
By the way, the word Michikusa is Japanese for "lingering on the road". It’s written using Kanjis (ideograms) that stand for "street" and "grass". I think it’s a very pretty and suitable name.
Now you have a good excuse to go outside and pick flowers. You’ll enjoy learning about different types of wild flowers and grasses you never even imagined existed.
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Michi-kusa with wild flowers
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