Special Ikebana Experience for Tourists was started. I prepared 3 different courses, Fun Ikebana Experience for 75 mins at Ryokan ( a traditional Japanese Inn), Jumping in a regular Ikebana class, and Intensive Ikebana Lessons for 3 hours.  If you have time to explore Nezu downtown area, I strongly recommend the first course, Fun Ikebana Experience at Ryokan.

As for 3 courses, please check this page. http://www.atelier-soka.com/for_tourists.html

The location of “Fun Ikebana Experience for 75 mins”  is perfect!  HOUMEIKAN MORIKAWA BEKKAN has more than 60 years and you can enjoy the beautiful retro architecture as well as Ikebana.

You will relax at a traditional Tatami room and enjoy arranging Ikebana, then you will take a picture at Tokonoma (a special alcove that shows hanging scroll in Tatami room)

These are the photos that recently students of Japanese language school tried to create Ikebana.

You can book and pay with credit card on Internet. The booking page is here. The booking page for Fun Ikebana Experience

Of course you can stay that beautiful Ryokan, HOUMEIKAN MORIKAWA BEKKAN.  Here is the page on Hotel.com about the Ryokan.

Ryokan Website

Why not give this fantastic experience a try if you are in Japan?

I cannot mention the title of the movie and when that will be released, and so on, but I arranged 2 huge Ikebana works on some movie studio. I’d like to show some photos. The first one is this.

And the second one!

The request of the art director is to show the greed for power. I used a lot of red colors and mysterious materials. Can you feel something greedy???   I’d like to show more details before the premier.

I arranged 2 Ikebana works on TV drama studio for shooting. The art director asked me to create something flashy and glitzy to ooze Yakuza ( Japanese gang) atmosphere.

First one is this.

I painted the branches with purple and silver and showed the contrast with yellow lady orchid. This is that Ikebana on air show. The second one is red one because the gang character is  killed with a lot of bullets. This is a Red Ikebana that was waiting for shooting at back stage.

The shooting was going with green back as this location would be a room of multistory building.

On air time!

With a decoration director.  I appreciate flowers taking me to a lot of new places and wonderful people!