Roger's Pictures
19 January 2020
Ikebana International Honolulu celebrated the start of the Year of the Rat with a buffet brunch. The centerpieces and exhibit arrangements all incorporated various references to the new year and participants were challenged to create their Chinese zodiac animal out of tin foil. Mrs. Misako Ito, wife of the Japanese Consul General in Hawaii, regaled us with highlights of the recent enthronement ceremony and her impressions of how Japanese New Year traditions are celebrated in Hawaii. (She had never made mochi before coming here!) We were also joined by Seema Sud of the Gurgram Chapter near New Delhi, India, who had just arrived for a short visit and was able to enjoy our speaker and exhibit with her daughter.
 At the registration desk |
 Ways & Means |
 Vase Sale |
 Barb's Ikenobo Shoka Shofutai with Hamaya... |
 Ohara Rising Form with lucky rats |
 Ikenobo Shoka Shimputai using pine, bamboo & ... |
 Sogetsu free style in "Cheesy" vase and rat figure |
 Sogetsu free style in hibachi with mizuhiki |
 Handmade kimekome doll rats |
 Sogetsu free style with wine bottle and glasses ... |
 Sogetsu free style with Hagoita |
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 Chapter President in long pants! |
 Making a horse |
 Tin foil horse |
 Tin foil dragon |
 Tin foil rat |
 "Itadakimasu" |
 Guest speaker, Mrs. Ito |
 Raffle prize |
 Visitors from New Delhi |
 Mrs. Seema Sud and Misako Ito |