My first lesson in Ikebana

My teacher is a Japanese lady, Ms Tomoko Ueda. She also conducts chado (Japanese tea ceremony) lessons. She teaches the Mishoryu （未生流）style of Ikebana

The teacher's assistant gave a brief illustration of the basic rules in Ikebana before she demonstrated a simple presentation with the flowers which she bought for me.

Then i started to work on my presentation using hers as a model.

Her comments on my work was that there's too much space between the 'tai' (left, branch representing heaven) and the 'fuku' (right, stem representing earth). It looks flat too.

First attempt
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