石川県金沢市ひがし茶屋街「一笑」にて
目黒雅叙園 百段階段にて
目黒雅叙園 百段階段にて
石川県金沢市ひがし茶屋街「一笑」にて
Kofu School
Kofu means “light wind” and Saigetsu means “clear moon.”
The two words combine to refer to serenity of mind, through which one can attain the utmost in floral art.
“IKEBANA” is an old traditional Japanese art, now spread far and wide throughout the world.
Like the offering flower on the alter opens in bloom, “IKEBANA” style is born – backed by six hundred long years and carrying many and varied opinions. It has surpassed the years building up vicissitudes being so closely connected with the styles of living, amidst Japan’s natural features.
The tiny flower we accidentally see by the roadside, grows virtually unnoticed, and can speak no wards, yet man feels so attracted to it and it is from its quietness that we strive to draw out so much from it. It depends on how we exchange feelings with flowers that we can refresh our hearts from a new breeze that enters it, and in this natural state mold an individuality all our own.
To like flowers means to love their beauty, to enjoy their goodness which, no doubt, leads to a gradual belief in their hidden truth.
“IKEBANA” is a traditional art, as well as, a new art which reveals the beautiful feelings of the modern spirit. While enjoying it in a society backed by a spiritual culture, the art is still being searched from many angles, and while weighing the progress of skill and a new self, we are spreading beauty in our lives and so let us learn to benefit from a life we can make ever more beautiful and abundant.
The Kofu School of Ikebana was established in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1935 where its headquarters continues to this today.
Try taking lessons in traditional and formal Ikebana.