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Splendors of Ikebana 2017 Exhibit

18-21 May 2017

The theme for this year's annual exhibit was obi and exhibitors were challenged to incorporate an obi into their display.  Some wove them into the arrangements while others put them under or around their arrangements while others simply hung them nearby.  However they were used they provided an interesting counterpoint to the flowers. 


Earl's arrangement at the entrance -- the obis were ...

Obi details

Obi details

Several arrangements

Several arrangements

Several arrangements

Wall hanging

Wall hanging

Elaine Arita's Ohara arrangement -- "Went to Osaka  ...

Obi details

Bertha Tottori's Sogetsu school arrangement

Arrangment detail

Kida-sensei's Ikenobo school Rikka Shimputai

Barbara Tinius's Ikenobo school arrangement with...

Barbara Tinius's Ikenobo school Shoka Shofutai ...

Jean Marutani's Ikenobo school Rikka Shimputai

Gale Kobayashi's Ikenobo school free style combining ...

Eight year old Brennan using an obi from Auntie ...

Obi detail

Charmain Yee- Hollisons's Sogetsu school arrangement ...

Maile Wilkerson's Sogetsu school arrangement -- obi ...

Karen Kirk's Sogetsu school arrangment -- Marukai ...

Obi detail

It even lights up!

Mrs. Misawa's Sogetsu school arrangement using 2 of ...

Obi detail

Obi detail tied in typical men's style known as kainokuchi

Gourd details

Viva Inouye's Toin Misho school arrangement -- "Sen... 

Viva Inouye's Toin Misho school arrangement

Beryl Ono-Stapleton's Ikenobo school free style ...

Obi to go with Beryl's arrangement

Ellen Kondo's Ikenobo school free style

Gwen Nagata's Ohara school arrangement representing...

Pat Komoto's Ichiyo school arrangement -- the tree ...

Grace Sekimitsu's Ohara school Bunjin arrangement ...

Sherrill Morichika-Balbirona's Sogetsu school ...

Betty Tanaka and young adults ...

Young adult arrangement

Obi detail

Small arrangememnt

Linda Sonoda's Sogetsu school arrangement -- "Obi ...

Arlene Horiuchi's Ohara schooil arrangement -- the obi ...

Obi detail

Gail Atwater's Ikenobo school free style

Obi detail - "belings to a Japanese lady whose mother ...

Wendy Umino's Ikenobo school Rikka Shimputai  ...

Obi detail

Jane Aquino's Ohara school arrangement

Obi detail -- "I am a sansei, third generation Japanese. ...

Bette Uyeda's Ohara school arrangement -- the obi is ...

Obi detail

Jennifer Shintani's Sogetsu school arrangement -- "The ...

Lorna Kawahara's Sogetsu school arrangement

Obi detail

Small wall hanging

Joan Hori's Ikenobo school Shoka Shimputai -- the ...

Obi detail

Linda Tanaka's Ohara school arrangement -- "This  ...

Susan Hirate's Ohara school arrangement with ...

May Hiraoka-Tomita's Ikenobo school Rikka Shimputai ...

May Hiraoka-Tomita's Ikenobo school Rikka Shimputai

Obi detail

Grace Kam's Sogetsu school arrangement -- the obi ...

Yukari Sato's Sogetsu school arrangement using 2 ...

Obi detail

Miwa Miura's Kado Sangetsu school arrangement

Small arrangement

Malina Kaulukuku's Sogetsu school arrangement  ...

Obi detail

Heliconia from her yard

Small arrangement

Masako Furuyama's Ikenobo school Gyodoike ...

Masako Furuyama's Ikenobo school Gyodoike ...

Obi detail

Children's obis over some open space...

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