Unshin Ohara founded the Ohara School in the late nineteenth century after Japan opened to the influence of western culture. He developed a new style of arranging on a horizontal plane in his low bowl container, the suiban. In this new Moribana style he was able to express the beauty of nature and incorporate the short stemmed, colorful flowers arriving from the western world. Both the arrangement and container were adopted by many schools and the modern age of Ikebana began. Today the Ohara School has many forms and styles of arranging including Hana–isho, Hana-kanade, Hanamai, Heika, Rimpa, Bunjin as well as Moribana.