Saturday, April 26, 2008

Ikebana at the Cherry Blossom Festival


I enjoyed seeing the use of flamboyant tropical plant material in this ancient Japanese art




5 comments:

em said...

very nice and interesting! Looks like the show was poorly lit for picture-taking. but i'm glad you presented these.

Rosengeranium said...

Ooohh! If I hade twentysix hours to the day I would take up ikebana too. These are some lovely bouquets!

kate smudges said...

I love these Ikebana designs, especially the orchid and lily one. The branches are so artfully arranged.

Cloudscome said...

Lovely.

Adekun said...

The mother-in-law normally puts something together like this outside the genkan. Looks like those pictured are best kept indoors