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context: gardens > flower arranging
Rikka
Ikebana is the modern term; when it became a studied artform, complete with schools and flower arranging competitions, from the 15th Century it was known as rikka, and the term survives as the name of this old style. This is also the time when tokonoma, the display nook, becomes common in houses, and a floral display is one of the most standard things to find there.
The style was rigidly circumscribed, with elaborate triangular compositions and countless specialist terms and principles. There are old descriptions of colossal arrangements: one 38' wide, and a pair that were each 40' high in 1593, but five or six feet was a more common scale.