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Sharon Stuart is a master of Shogetsu Ikebana and she posts her own and her student’s students works with photos and nice explanations.
Sharon Stuart is a master teacher of Ikebana Sogetsu School.
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Lynn shares her passion for orchids and sogetsu style ikebana on her blog. It shows the pictures of walks where she gets inspired and finds material first and then shares the resulting ikebana arrangement with us.
“I have been growing orchids for 15+ years now. In 2008, I took my first lesson in Sogetsu Ikebana. For me, growing orchids and creating Ikebana arrangements are my meditation. I created this blog to share my pictures and ideas with you.”
A Year of Ikebana is about discovering whether or not an arrangement a day will keep the doctors away. In other words, how will the practice of Ikebana help with the maintenance of chronic illness and the promotion of well-being in an individual who has not yet found the right balance in their day-to-day life.
Ann lives in Portland, OR with her husband Pietro. He is a trained chef who once worked for a season with a well-known Japanese chef in California, but he’s currently working as a winemaker and certified sommelier. Ann has a BA in art history and English literature and has worked in the past as an editor, ESL teacher, and arts administrator. Her first ESL job was in high school and she worked with a local college professor in a special exchange program he’d created to give children from his home town in rural Japan the opportunity to come to the USA. (Currently, the professor’s wife is her Ikebana sensei.)
This is a nice blog from Norway about Sogetsu style Ikebana. It features many pictures from Ikebana exhibitions occasionally accompanied by poems.
“Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging flowers. More than being decorative, ikebana is thought of as a path of life or a kind of meditation. I’m studying Ikebana with the Sogetsu school, and currently I hold a student certificate of Ikkyu Shokyu (advanced, fourth certificate).”
This is the blog of a Sogetsu study group in Chennai India. 4 contributors regularly share pictures and short descriptions of their Ikebana works.
This blog is written by four contributors who represent the Chennai Study Group, which is associated to the Sogetsu School of Ikebana in Tokyo.
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