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Sōgetsu-ryū
is a school of ''ikebana'', or Japanese floral art. History Sōgetsu was founded by Sōfū Teshigahara in 1927. Sōfū's father was an ikebana master, who taught his son from childhood. Sōfū wanted to become a painter, but he found that the possibilities for creative expression in using green materials are endless, just as in painting. He found that the strict rules of traditional ikebana did not allow individual expression. He broke away from traditional ikebana and formed his school in 1926. In the beginning, he promoted the school through radio. As of 2016, there have been four headmasters. Sōfū's daughter Kasumi was a gifted artist. She became the second headmaster until she died at age 47. Her elder brother, film director Hiroshi Teshigahara, took over. The current headmaster is Akane, Sōfū's granddaughter. The Sōgetsu school is an open-minded and avant-gardist school. The school was one of the first to have English textbooks. A famous saying by Sōfū Teshigah ...
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is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as . The origin of ikebana can be traced back to the ancient Japanese custom of erecting Evergreen, evergreen trees and decorating them with flowers as yorishiro () to invite the gods. Later, flower arrangements were instead used to adorn the (alcove) of a traditional Japanese home. is counted as one of the three classical Japanese arts of refinement, along with for incense appreciation and for tea and the tea ceremony. Etymology The term comes from the combination of the Japanese and . Possible translations include and . History The pastime of viewing plants and appreciating flowers throughout the four seasons was established in Japan early on from the aristocracy. poetry anthologies such as the and from the Heian period (794–1185) included many poems on the topic of flowers. With the introduction of Japanese Buddhism, Buddhism, offering flowers at Buddhist altars became common. Although the l ...
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Sōfū Teshigahara
Sōfū Teshigahara ( 勅 使 河 原 蒼 風 ''Teshigahara Sōfū'', 17 December 1900 – 5 September 1979) was the founder of the ''Sōgetsu-ryū'' school of ''ikebana'' flower arranging. Biography He was born in Tokyo. He learned flower arranging from his father, who had studied many styles of different schools. In 1927 he started the Sōgetsu School. His son is the Japanese film director Hiroshi Teshigahara. He believed that ikebana is an art and that the difference between the Sōgetsu School and Ikebana lies in the belief that once all the rules are learned and the techniques mastered, an unbounded field remains for freer personal expression using varied materials, not just flowers. In 1929 he held the first Sogetsu exhibition at Ginza, in 1930 at the Josui Kaikan in Tokyo working with scrap metal, a new medium. In 1949 the first major post-war Sōgetsu exhibition was held at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Ginza and proved to be revolutionary. Between 1950 and ...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara
was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film ''Woman in the Dunes''. He is also known for directing other titles such as '' The Face of Another'' (1966), ''Natsu no Heitai'' (''Summer Soldiers'', 1972), and '' Pitfall'' (1962), which was Teshigahara's directorial debut. He has been called "one of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time". Teshigahara is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on ''Woman in the Dunes''. Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana. Biography Teshigahara was born in Tokyo, the son of Sōfu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sōgetsu-ryū school of ''ikebana''. He graduated in 1950 from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and began working in documentary film. He dire ...
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ...
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Teshigahara Sofu
Teshigahara (written: 勅使河原) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese film director *, Japanese flower arranger {{surname Japanese-language surnames ...
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Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. Harden's breakthrough came in 1990 with the Coen brothers' film '' Miller's Crossing''. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Pollock'' (2000) and '' Mystic River'' (2003), winning for her portrayal of artist Lee Krasner in the former. Her other notable film credits include '' The First Wives Club'' (1996), '' Flubber'' (1997), '' Space Cowboys'' (2000), '' Mona Lisa Smile'' (2003), and the '' Fifty Shades'' film series (2015–2018). Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Tony Kushner's epic play '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches''/'' Angels in America: Perestroika'' for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in 2009 in Yasmina Reza's comedic play '' God of Carnage'', with her perfo ...
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Legacy
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Kenzan
A ''kenzan'' (剣山), also called spiky frog, is a specific device used in the Japanese art of flower arrangement ikebana for fixing the flowers in the container. It consists of a heavy lead plate with erected brass needles where the stipes are fixed. The name ''kenzan'' (剣山) literally means ''sword mountain''. It was introduced by the Moribana style of ikebana. Another flower holder without spikes but only holes is called ''shippo dome'' (七宝留め) and is used by the Saga Go-ryū is a school of ''ikebana'', the Japanese traditional art of flower arrangement. The school is also known as ''Saga-ryū''. History The history goes back to Emperor Saga, who ruled from 809-823 CE during the Heian period. The emperor resided at ... school and sometimes other schools. References {{Reflist See also * Flower frog Ikebana Floristry ...
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