Roger's Pictures
27-28 June 2015
Ikenobo America in San Francisco offered a weekend workshop on Sunanomono or Sunamono ikebana. Sunamono are a form of rikka that are wider than they are tall. Traditionally made of pine and other hardy tree materials, they can also be made with more tender flowers and "grass" (aka non-woody) materials. Jean, Wendy and I traveled from Honolulu for the occasion...
 Sample Sunamono with exaggerated hidari nagashi |
 Supports for a deep round vase |
 Sample sunamono with mostly grass materials |
 Our komiwari, doboku and support |
 Wendy starting to arrange |
 Anthurium & irises |
 Kurashige-sensei lends a hand |
 Erica palm & orchid |
 Wendy still arranging... |
 Sunamono by Jean & Barb |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Hydrangea & maple |
 A helping hand |
 Quince & pine |
 Mostly tropical materials |
 Finishing up... |
 Covering the supports |
 Sunamono by Jean & Barb |
 Nearly done |
 Iris |
 Quince & pine |
 Mostly tropicals |
 Two kinds of pine |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Pine & lotus |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Erica palm and palm seed covering |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Maple & iris |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Mostly tropicals |
 Irises & maple |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting Wendy's arrangement |
 Kurashige-sensei correcting arrangements |
 Divided into 2 mixing bowls |
 Monstera and hydrangea |
 Correct Sunamono by Jean & Barb |
 Corrected Sunamono by Jean & Barb |
 All that was left a few hours later... |