Ikebana in relation to histories of japanese modern art
Instead, upon its publication in 1999, Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State exposed many new areas of the field that were previ- ously incapable of inclusion within the narratives of modern Japanese art because they had been structurally eliminated by bijutsu and its systems. Ikebana flower arrangement is one such example.
Foxwell’s intro to Sato Doshin, p 5