Ikebana, the Japanese word for the art of flower arrangement, comes from two Japanese words, IKE, meaning pond and HANA, meaning flower, the pond flower. Thus, Ikebana is the art of arranging flowers in water. Ikebana emphasizes most on measurement, the scale of floral arrangement. The main aim of Ikebana is to bring nature indoors and make it live in the floral arrangement that is being made.