A walk in the calm

Isolated from town I went to Tairyuji, one of the 88 temple pligrimage of Shikoku. The temple is in the middle of a mountain, so I took a ropeway to get there.

Literally, another world was there - no people, no noise of the city.

Only cool air and pleasant calmness pervasived around greens with panoramatic view which we can never see in a town.

Full bloomed hydrangeas colored calmness modestly and orange of monk's clothes stood out against green.

Some ikebana trend

This is my work of the previous lesson. The work of the photo looks it has no movement, but actually it has. I failed to take photos again... I took them only from the top. I should take some photo technique lesson before taking an ikebana lesson...

Going back to my ikebana work, the flower combination can be said to be difficult. Usually a green material plays a role to connect between colorful flowers and help the move of a work to look circulated, so in this form some green material is always used, but this time, it isn't.

Instead of green material, flowers such as baby's breaths and see lavenders are used like yellow flowers in the photo as connecting flowers for circulating move. I heard that it is a trend not to use green materials.

The blow is retry without green materials at home. Strong color combination might be too much...

The simple is for summer.

It's really so hot and humid in Japan.

Flowers go rotten so quickly. Some flowers sometimes are not lively even before using. Summer is not welcomed for ikebana lovers.


This ikebana work is one of my favorites. The subject is a big leaf like a wing, yellow butterfly palm, and the leaves can provide various types of images because their stems are soft and whole of the leaf can be bowed easily. Expression by this green helps a whole work to give a move.


Flower combination of this work is simple and does not have colors so much. This is just as well in order not to be stuffy.