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RRANGEMENTS of five flowers or branches are called Gogyo. They should be arranged like the cut.


 * No. 1 represents Heaven.
 * No. 2 represents Man.
 * No. 5 represents Earth.

But they are placed in the arrangement as they are numbered; No. 3 and No. 4 being attributes to Heaven and Man.

In some arrangements you can make the flowers form "dan" or "steps," like this: If the branches have many flowers or leaves, or if you are arranging numbers of branches together, then put the greater part of the [80]