Colorful

White Dahlia

I saw white dahlias for the first time. It's very gorgeous and pure.

Fruits, vegetables and ikebana

Using five kinds of flower materials, I made an ikebana work in a radial form. I like daisy's vitamin color which seems to give me the power.



The little yellows are pappers not for eating but for ornamental purposes. Surprisingly, various fruits and vegetables such as pineapples, berries, pumpkins and cucumbers etc. are used in the ikebana world. In every ikebana exhibition I can see a work with fruits and vegetables. Do you think these are beautiful?

Honestly, I can not understand the beauty... so I interpret their usage in ikebana for expression of the uniqueness or naturalness. And for fun?

In my opinion, it is true that ikebana needs uniqueness or naturalness, but at the same time, or more than that, beauty is the most essential factor in ikebana arrangements and it should be never lacked.

Unfortunately, I have never met this kind of ikebana work which I am impressed with the beauty, and the work of the photo is also the same. This work might have naturalness,but are you impressed with its beauty? As for beauty, this work is weak...

In ikebana, everyone always seek some new style that no one have done before, and it can be said that this is one of the results. Innovation is necessary, but, don't you rethink whether this is innovation or not, ikebana people?

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.

My motivation

A few days ago, I went taking an ikebana lesson and made my best work that I have ever done, but at the same time, I made a mistake - I forgot bringing my degital camera!!! Shoot!

I have never taken in-focus photos with my mobile phone's camera, but I had no choice at the time - I put all of my hope into my mobile phone's camera.

And...

Photos taken by my mobile phone were all out-of-focus in spite of my expectation. I think resolution of my mobile phone's camera is not so bad, but I always fail to take photos successfully. Maybe I am too unfamiliar with cameras. I want technique for taking good photos by any camera!

Instead of the photos, I upload my favorite works in some exhibitions.


I like various reds in the above photo, and a litte white and blue is a good color balance.
This above photo is gorgeous, isn't it? Many colors are used, but white is used for the biggest flowers, so the work is gorgeous but, I get the impression of coolness. Also, I like the blue vase - it's a good combination with flowers.

In the third photo, I like the upward forms like fans and the simmetry of main and sub works. I like the transparent, good color and good shape vases.
Fovorite works which someone else made always improve my motivation.