Roger's Pictures

Ikebana Events in San Francisco

15-19 January 2010

We attended a 50th Anniversary Celebration luncheon for Ikebana International, and various events for the 42nd Anniversary of Ikenobo Ikebana American Headquarters.
The II luncheon included an exhibit by several schools of ikebana and a fashion show of comfortable clothes with an Asian flair.
Ikenobo kicked off events with a reception for an exhibit by master professors who toured the US in the last 10 years.
The next day there was a demonstration by 5 instructors, and a game in which 54 visiting professors from the last 42 years arranged rikka shofutai in 6 teams -
each member brought one branch, leaf or flower and had to arrange it as one of the 9 main branches in the order they were drawn from a bag -
resulting in some of the strangest ikebana I've ever seen! We had a huge banquet that evening and a quick workshop the next morning.
In between Roger and I got out to see a little of San Francisco and ran down to Monterey on Monday...

Exhibit at Ikebana International's luncheon	Ikenobo school Rikka Shofutai arrangement	Ohara School arrangement	Koryu Shogetsu-kai school arrangment	Chiko school arrangement
Enshu school arrangement	Enshu school arrangement	Wafu school arrangement	Aratame school arrangement	Sogetsu school arrangement
Fashion show	Fashion show	Fashion show	Friends...	Sato-sensei's Jiyuka (free style)
Miura-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Shimizu-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Kobayashi-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Obata-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Shimizu-sensei's Rikka Shimputai
Furukawa-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Kurata-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Kato-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Mori-sensei's Rikka Shimputai	Katoh-sensei's Rikka Shimputai
Reiko, Valeria & Kyoko...	Legion of Honor	San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco Bay Bridge
San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco Bay Bridge
San Francisco Bay Bridge	Alcatraz Island	San Francisco Bay Bridge	San Francisco city streets	Rikka Shofutai by Sasaki-sensei
Plum Ishuike Shoka Shofutai by Iguchi-sensei	Yuko Sato's demonstration	Shoka Shimputai by Yuko Sato	Noriko Obata's demonstration	Obata-sensei's Rikka Shimputai
Miura-sensei's demonstration	Miura-sensei's Jiyuka	Second Jiyuka by Miura-sensei in flat plastic vase	Rikka Shofutai by Furukawa-sensei	Former visiting professors in Rikka game
Former visiting professors in Rikka game	Emi	Sample Rikka Shofutai	Barb's Rikka Shofutai before correction	Barb's Rikka Shofutai after correction
Barb's Rikka Shofutai	Emi, Valeria, Yue Ling, Kyoko & Reiko	San Francisco city streets	San Francisco city streets	San Francisco city streets
Lombard Street aka The Crookedest Street	Lombard Street aka The Crookedest Street	Lombard Street aka The Crookedest Street	The Pyramid	Building facade

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