Since October has been designated as the Pink Month, and the color of pink is ‘Rose’ in French, I decided to use the roses for ikebana work this week. I hope this campaign will be more known in all over the world.
I will participate in the event of Japan Matsuri 2022 on Oct 22 et 23 and exhibit the ikebana works under the theme of Harvest Autumn. I will also organize the ikebana workshop on Saturday from 2p.m. As for the workshop, the reservation is required in advance as the capacity is up to 6 people.
The flowers of sword lily reach full bloom! As this flower is much longer with lots of buds than another flowers, we can barely see full bloom until the edge of the flowers. I also adopted the fruit of lotus and flowers of den phal for this work. Every material has a strong personality, but
We practiced the ikebana work with flowers of Gladiolus this week. This flower is also called ’Sword lily’ as the leaves look like a sword. Since this plant has voluminous flowers and tall, it was a bit difficult to fix the stems on the pinholder ‘kenzan.’ However, the participants handled well with this challenge and
I chose the dry branches of lunaria for the ikebana work this week. Although they are already dried and withered, they look shining with the sunshine. As for the flowers, I used marigold and waxflower as their color is much light compared with lunaria.
I organized the ikebana workshop and tea ceremony at musée japonais which is located in Castelnau-le-Lez yesterday. Thank you very much for coming to visit the great museum, create the beautiful floral composition, and attend the tea ceremony. I’m very glad to share the peaceful moment with them there. It was such a perfect day
I used the large leaf of Japanese aralia this week with some flowers that has the fall tints. Japanese aralia is called ‘ Yatsude‘ in Japanese which literally means 8 hands as it looks like a hand with 8 fingers. I realized that the colors of each flower gets darker little by little as autumn
I launched the ikebana workshops in September at ADRA, and some participants has started to learn the ikebana with me. If you are interested in ikebana, you are always very welcome to my lessons. Here are the dates and times at which you can attend the workshop in October.Wed Oct 5th 10:30-12:30 : 2 places
We practiced the particular form in which the energy flows to right side. The branches of eucalyptus have the flexibility to bend and change the forms, therefore we could realize this work which gave the dynamic impression.
I will organize the ikebana workshop and tea ceremony on Oct 1st from 2p.m. at musée japonais at Castelnau-le-Lez. The workshop of ikebana and tea ceremony are fully booked, however, it will be a good opportunity to appreciate the private art collection mainly in Japanese art which is authentic and precious historical materials. You don’t
