SOGETSU IKEBANA

Anyone can enjoy Sogetsu Ikebana anytime, anywhere, using any material.

The Sogetsu School was founded in 1927 by Sofu Teshigahara (1900 – 1979). 

He applied more free expression giving students the opportunity to develop their individual style. He aimed to develop ikebana into a form of art. Sofu was a sculptor and painter; he also practiced calligraphy.

Using unconventional materials such as fabric, pieces of tin, stone, iron and bleached branches in ikebana allowed room for free expression. When choosing containers, his motto was, ‘anything that can hold water is useful to arrange in’.

The most important thing in the Sogetsu School is not to create something special, but to try to get the best out of the material, the power of imperfection and the search for balance and simplicity.

The Sogetsu School has become one of the three largest schools in Japan and very popular, including in Europe and the Netherlands. In 2001, the fourth generation of the Teshigahara family took over in the person of Akane Teshigahara.

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