What is Kenzan? It’ s a useful tool to place flowers when making Ikebana arrangement. Western flower arrangements use green floral foams. I sometimes use them, too. One thing I don’t like about the floral
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It was not easy. I had to retake the video because the first one didn’t look good. It was messy. My home office is not quite equipped to shoot a video. It took much longer
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Somebody is leaving town. A very special person whom I worked on this project with. It’s time to say good-bye, and I’m supposed to say it with Ikebana flowers this weekend. During this coronavirus pandemic,
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Now I have held my online Ikebana class for two months, I’m getting used to talking to the students on the screen and looking at their flower arrangements through photos that they send me. I
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My first online Ikebana class was held last Saturday morning with 12 people connected. Many thanks to those of you who volunteered to be my Guinea pigs. Despite some glitches here and there, the class
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I’m nervous. My first online ikebana class is happening in two days. Under the current stay-at-home order, obviously it’s not possible to hold a normal class. But when exactly will we be able to resume
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Stuck at home in this lockdown period, I just found this rare movie about Sogetsu School and its founder, Sofu Teshigahara. As I mentioned in my previous post Sogetsu School: Anytime, anywhere, by anyone, Sogetsu
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