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IKEBANA Workshops
Japanese Flower Arranging Workshop for Beginners
at Castle Rock AIKIDO
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Seiko Yoshikawa
Mrs. Seiko Yoshikawa studied Ikebana for approximately one year as a young woman in Japan. However, she became a serious student when she met Mr. Kyoko Kita in the United States in 1984 and continues to intensely study under Mrs. Kita to this day. Like many martial arts, Ikebana also has "ranks." Currently, Seiko holds the rank of "komon."
Seiko teaches Ikebana classes in downtown Denver, Colorado Springs, and in her own home. Besides her teaching duties, Seiko is frequently asked to demonstrate and arrange flowers for special occasions at the Denver Art Museum, the Denver branch of Teikyo University, and Arapaphoe Community College. She also makes Ikebana arrangements for a Japanese restaurants, banks, doctor's offices and even a Cherry Creek beauty shop.
Ikebana
Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging. It is a three dimensional art form and the philosophy expressing the interrelationship between the self and the outer world.
Sogestsu Ikebana
There are many different styles of Japanese flower arranging. Sogetsu is a modern (since the 1920s) and innovative school of Ikebana that encourages imagination, individual creativity, and the idea that anyone can create ikebana anywhere, any time, with anything. Line, open space, focal point and asymmetry are key elements of Sogetsu design. After mastering many basic forms to learn technqiue and the design principles, Sogetsu Ikebana students progress to free style designs where the only limits are those of imagination.
Kyoko Kita
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Mrs. Kyoto Kita has been teaching Ikebana in Japan and the United States since 1960. As a teacher of the highest rank in the Sogetsuo School of Ikebana, Mrs. Kita conducts classes for beginners through advanced study for other Ikebana teachers. To further increase the appreciation and study of this art form, she also demonstrates exhibits and conducts workshops in Sogetsu Ikebana. Mrs. Kita's love of Japanese art and culture extends to teaching the Japanese tea ceremony (called Sado) and her commitments to the Japan America Society, The Asian Art Association of the Denver Art Museum, Koto Colorado, and the Sogetsu Colorado branch.
Above: An arrangement by one of Seiko's Ikebana students.
Right: An arrangement by Seiko Yoshikawa
