I've been taking
Ikebana (flower arrangement) lessons for almost three years. I arranged callas, blue lace flowers and roses in a base. There are four divided spaces for the arrangment- left back, left front, right front, right back- and each space has main flowers called
Tai, You,
Huku, Ushirozoe which are the tallest flowers in each space. In this case, I arranged the tallest calla as
Tai (in the left back) and the calla in the left front as You, a rose in the right front as
Huku and a blue lace flower in the right back as
Ushiro zoe. The other flowers support these main flowers. There is a basic rule for the length of flowers- like You is 3/4 of
Tai, and
Huku is 3/4 of You.
After three years I'm interested in
ikebana more and more. When I first started I mostly cared about the length of flowers. Of course it is important, but these days I pay more attention to lines and shapes of each flower to find out the best place for each of them. I noticed that
ikebana depends on how to see the space. Every time you encounter flowers with different characteristics and create the space with them so that it is a
depthful world!
Tuberose, New Zealand flax and Dahlia.
After three years I'm interested in ikebana more and more. When I first started I mostly cared about the length of flowers. Of course it is important, but these days I pay more attention to lines and shapes of each flower to find out the best place for each of them. I noticed that ikebana depends on how to see the space. Every time you encounter flowers with different characteristics and create the space with them so that it is a depthful world!
My friend and I went to see plum trees in a park this weekend. There were around 100 kinds of and total 1200 plum trees in the park. Some of the trees are really rare- I heard that there are a few trees called "Kanogyokucho" in Japan and one of them is in the park. It's an interesting tree because a few plates have another plate inside and then another again and again! There were also trees with a mix of pink plates and white plates. I even saw a mix of white and pink parts in a plate! I've been away from my hometown (countryside!) so it's important for 
me to go to see and feel the season.
I found a Hello Kitty postcard set in Post Office the other day. Hello Kitty wears Kimono on one of the postcards with cherry blossom around her. When I found it I thought it's nice to send this postcard to my friend who called me when I was sick because she likes kimono, too, so I bought several sets!
