We are extremely honored to introduce to the Romanian public Mr. Prof. Dr. Osamu Inoue, PhD (Kyoto University), a personality of current Japanese culture, researcher and also master of the Saga-Goryu Ikebana school.

🌿Mr. Osamu Inoue is:

- professor at Saga University of Arts in Kyoto;

- member of the Subcommittee for Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Subcommittee for Cultural Properties within the Council for Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan;

- Academic Advisor of the former Saga Imperial Palace, headquarters of the Saga-Goryu Ikebana school;

- President of the International Ikebana Research Society.

🌿His most famous books:

The Philosophy of Ikebana, 2016

Poetry, Flowers, Incense, and the Tea Ceremony, 2017

Tea and Flowers (co-authored), 2020

Nature, Man and Flowers, 2021

🌿Mr. Prof. Dr. Osamu Inoue will give a conference on Ikebana on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 6:00 PM, in the Aula Magna of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest, Bd. Mărăști 59.

You can also see him at the Opening of the Festival, October 13, 2025, at 6:00 PM, a celebration of Japanese art, with demonstrations of Ikebana, Kitsuke and Japanese and Romanian music performed by the Sound Choir of Bucharest, conducted by Mr. Voicu Popescu.

🌿Entry is free, we look forward to seeing you!

💐KOBAYASHI YOSHIE SENSEI (Komon degree, Sogetsu school) has been practicing Ikebana for over 50 years and is the one whose workshops you absolutely must attend, if you are an ikebanist. She is an extraordinary teacher, recommended by Matsumura Rumiko Sensei (Riji) herself, with whom we had the honor and joy of studying last year at the first edition of the Bucharest Ikebana Festival.

💐As part of the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști), Kobayashi Sensei will hold three workshops under the theme "West meets East", which anyone can participate in, even if they are beginners.

-Classical Nageire Form (Basic Level): October 17th, 6:00 PM

- Composition of Mass and Line (Advanced Level): October 18th, 9:00 AM

- Use of Muscle (Teacher Level): October 19th, 10:00 AM

For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

💐A few words about Kobayashi Sensei:

- Her name in Ikebana: Seihou青芳 (Blue Fragrance)

- She began studying Ikebana in 1965

- She received the rank of Komon from Iemoto Akane Teshigahara

- She participated in the annual exhibitions of the Sogetsu school for 10 years

💐Through her words, Kobayashi Sensei teaches us the essence of what Ikebana is:

"Because I teach many students, I am always happy and always learning from them. Ikebana is my life."

Learning Ikebana from Kobayashi Sensei is a unique experience. We look forward to seeing you!

🍂The next guest is very special for us, those of Ikebana International Bucharest: Tanaka Yukiko Sensei from Kyoto, Japan.

Tanaka Sensei is an honorary member of our Ikebana Association. She was the one who brought us not only the Saga Goryu Ikebana school, which she practices and which we needed to be part of the Ikebana International organization, but also a certain way of being: delicacy intertwined with cheerfulness, kindness and generosity that harmoniously combine with wisdom and a sharp mind, sensitivity and a lot of humor.

She came to Romania 3 years ago and since then she wants to always come back, to our joy. Tanaka Sensei is already part of our family❤

🍂Tanaka Sensei is a Japanese language teacher, she studied at

- Kyoto College of Foreign Studies

- YWCA Osaka Japanese Language Teacher Course

🍂She has worked as a teacher for a long time, not only in Japan, but also in Hungary, Poland and Romania (where she taught an intensive Japanese course for 3 months, at our University, USAMVB, to the delight of her students).

She is also a tea ceremony teacher, Urasenke school.

🍂This year, you can meet Tanaka Sensei at the Ikebana Festival on Sunday, October 19, at 9:00. She will hold a Chado (tea ceremony) workshop.

🍂It is a very special opportunity to get to know the true tradition of hospitality from the old, eternal Kyoto, through the gentle and smiling eyes of Tanaka Sensei.

🍂For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We are waiting for you!

🌹We will have a Yuzen workshop with a remarkable artist, KASAHARA ITSUKO SENSEI, during the Ikebana Festival (Bucharest, October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB).

🌹Kasahara Sensei participated in the first edition of the Ikebana Festival last year and fell so much in love with Romania, its people, the beautiful campus of our University (USAMV Bucharest), she was so impressed by our passion for Japanese art and culture, that she wanted to come back this year to help our young Festival. It is truly moving that a prominent representative of the Japanese intangible cultural heritage comes from the Rising Sun to help us organize our Ikebana Festival, bringing with her the art of kimono through Kamiya Tsuyaka Sensei.

Kasahara Sensei, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, please accept all our gratitude 🙏💕❤

🌹Kasahara Sensei's Yuzen (silk painting) workshop will take place on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 6:00 PM, at the Faculty of Horticulture, USAMV Bucharest, Bd. Mărăști 59.

🌹Participants will paint cherry blossoms and peony blossoms, the national flowers of the two countries, Japan and Romania, on a piece of kimono silk, and the creation can be framed or transformed into a bag, as in the image.

🌹You will also be able to admire her beautiful creations in the exhibition at our University.

🌹It is a rare and very precious opportunity to study Yuzen with a true master of the genre. We remember how, last year, we were able to watch her paint with such grace, before the workshop, with such perfect peace, which slowly dripped into our souls. It is a transformative experience, we are waiting for you with us!

🌹You can find her presentation from last year on our website, to get to know her through her own words: www.ikebanaromania.org

🌹Her website:

https://itsuko.sakura.ne.jp/

itsuko.sakura.ne.jp

🌹 For information and registration, please write to us at the email address of the Ikebana International Bucharest Association: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

🍁This year we will receive the visit of a delightful representative of the art of kimono, KAMIYA TSUYAKA SENSEI 🌹

🍁Kamiya Sensei is a Kitsuke teacher and is already in love with Romania🥰

🍁Before reading her words that help us get to know her, we remind you that you can see her:

- in the Kitsuke show at the opening ceremony of the Ikebana Festival on October 13, 2025 (free admission, limited to available seats),

- at the workshop / demonstration on October 16 (for registration or information, please write to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/773259925594866/?active_tab=discussion

🌹”My name is Tsuyaka Kamiya, a stylist, model and kimono teacher based in Tokyo, Japan.

In October I will be visiting Romania together with artist Yuzen Kasahara-san to share the beauty of traditional Japanese culture. It is a pleasure and thank you very much for the warm welcome - I am truly honored to have this opportunity.

I do stage demonstrations as well as photo and video shoots with traditional kimono. I also offer kimono dressing (kitsuke) services for various events such as Nihonshu, coming of age ceremonies, graduation ceremonies and more.

🌹At the workshop:

I would like to give a presentation on the history of kimono and introduce the different types, including Furisode and Hōmongi. After that, I would like to give a live demonstration, showing how to dress in these styles, while explaining the Kitsuke process - the tools I use and the techniques involved.

In addition, I hope to lead a hands-on workshop where participants can learn how to dress themselves in kimono.

I am also thinking of providing participants with a Macha tea or Japanese snack and a small Japanese gift so that they can eat or drink while watching my demonstration.

I would also be happy to perform Hakubi Mai - a three-minute performance in which I wear a kimono and express its beauty through graceful movements, staged to music.

I would also like to organize a collaborative fashion show with Romanian traditional clothes and kimonos, to celebrate the unique beauty of both cultures.

Since I decided to visit Romania, I have been talking to Romanians and I already love the culture and the people. I am very excited to attend the event and meet everyone who will be there. ☺❤

Thank you so much for your support!

SOUND CHOIR, conducted by Mr. VOICU POPESCU, will also come to this year's edition of the Ikebana Festival, with the joy that characterizes their big hearts, where music is created first of all ❤ You can listen to them at the opening ceremony on October 13, at 6:00 PM, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59, with a small recital of Japanese and Romanian songs.

For those who don't already know them, here's a little introduction to them:

Since 1994, Sound Choir has been more than a choir - it's a family of voices, friends and passion for music.

Sound Choir is an award-winning ensemble, renowned for its vibrant energy and stylistic versatility. With a repertoire that ranges from classical and contemporary works to film soundtracks, jazz, gospel and rock, the choir has won top awards at international competitions and performed on renowned stages across Europe. Each concert is a bold blend of passion, precision and joy - making Sound Choir unforgettable for audiences everywhere.

We look forward to seeing you!

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🌼Choose your favorite teacher from the Bucharest Ikebana Festival!

The next guest, MARIANNE DUFRAISSE, comes from France, but her roots are Romanian. A beautiful and pure soul, a person of surprising authenticity, with a clear and confident gaze, with an overflowing and powerful creative energy that animates her to always discover new means of expression.

🌼Marianne has two workshops during the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59):

- October 18 / 11:00 - White or colored paper, creativity with unconventional materials)

- October 19 / 12:00 - Kakebana in a bamboo, creativity with flowers and seasonal plants

For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

🌼A short presentation:

French-Romanian Ikebana artist, 3rd degree teacher- Sankyu Shihan

Flower name: Kishin

Member of:

- Sogetsu Teachers Association,

- Ikebana International Bucharest Chapter 269

Instagram: fleurgreen19

Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

🌼Exhibitions:

2025 - Arboretum Espartignac France- Bamboo and Ikebana

2025 - Rendez-vous au jardin – at the Arboretum of Espartignac France

2024 – Ikebana International Festival Bucharest

2015 France, Medoc Gironde – Japanese art in all its forms

2014 France, Brive, exhibition for the Sacred Days of Japan

Workshops:

- Active member of the Ikebana Club chaired by Ekaterina Seehaus

- Private/public demonstrations in France to introduce the art of Ikebana to the general public

🌼Her own words, with sincerity:

"My journey on the Flower Path began 10 years ago. After studying the 5 textbooks I obtained my first teacher's diploma in 2023, and my second in 2025. What I like about Ikebana is that you are constantly learning, and throughout life, at any level, every ikebanist has a teacher, someone who has more experience to share, a special bond being created and an artistic relationship as rare as it is impressive. I practiced as a hobby western floral art for 20 years, which gave me the opportunity to meet great names of international floral creators. But I felt that I was missing something deeper, a state close to meditation, a state of fulfillment and pure happiness, this is how I feel when practicing Ikebana.

The covid period gave me the opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and imagine other ways of working and processing what I had at hand, this being one of the advantages of our Sogetsu school – anyone can create, with any material, in any place. It is an extraordinary motto in opening new horizons, a motto full of positive energy and so profound.

My favorite materials are bamboo, unconventional materials, but also everything that is more « expressive » or more different in nature, I like to give them all an artistic life. We find these materials very often in my creations presented in exhibitions in France where I live or in Romania where I am one of the members of Ikebana International Bucharest Chapter 269."

🌺Choose your favorite teacher from the Bucharest Ikebana Festival!

🌺 The next guest is ALINA ALEXANDRU, a person with extraordinary inner strength, who manages to alchemize her feelings and transform them into healing art, revealing and emphasizing with passion the beauty of this world.

🌺- Name in Ikebana: Fuyu 風夕(Evening Breeze)

- Certified teacher in the Sogetsu Ikebana school - Grade 3

- Director of International Relations within our Ikebana International Bucharest Association, also a member of the Tokyo Sogetsu Association and the Branch Française Sogetsu Paris.

🌺Alina will have an Ikebana workshop within the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59) on October 19, at 3:00 PM, with the theme "The art of lines, volume and balance, expanders from midollino". In the images you can see examples of her Ikebana works with expanders, as you can work in her workshop on Sunday, October 19.

For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

🌺A few words to get to know her:

Alina Alexandru is currently a certified Ikebana teacher in Japan at level 3, soon she will receive the certificate for level 2.

She initially had a Western floristry background that was later enriched with the spiritual dimension of Ikebana, currently being very active in promoting Japanese floral art in Europe. With a double background – PhD student in economics, but also an artist of flowers and Japanese culture – she combines discipline and professional rigor with the sensitivity and beauty of floral ephemera.

She has coordinated various exhibitions and cultural events over time.

🌺Through her works, Alina brings to the public an art of balance and transformation, inspired by Japanese tradition, but open to contemporary creativity.

Ikebana becomes, in her vision, a form of meditation and artistic expression, a bridge between cultures and generations. Her dedication is doubled by a deep personal dimension – an art that she offers as a tribute of love and memory for her daughter, Ingrid, transforming suffering into shared beauty.

🌺Her Facebook page, where you can see her artistic journey: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070152981210

We are waiting for you!

🌹ANDREEA GEORGESCU – Ikebana Artist, President of Peony Study Group Sogetsu and Development Director of Ikebana International Bucharest Chapter.

You can see Andreea at the opening ceremony of the Bucharest Ikebana Festival, October 13, 2025, at 6:00 PM, in the Aula Magna of the USAMVB Rectorate, with an Ikebana demonstration. She will also have an Ikebana workshop on Saturday, October 18, at 2:00 PM, with the theme: “Using Fresh and Unconventional Materials in Ikebana”.

🌹For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

🌹Andreea Georgescu has been studying ikebana for 20 years. In 2020 she began her studies at the Sogetsu Ikebana School in Tokyo, Japan. She currently holds the 3rd degree of teacher and is continuing her studies for the 2nd degree. She is a member of the Sogetsu Teacher's Association, and the flower name given by the head of the Sogetsu school, Akane Teshigahara, is Seitō 青冬 (Blue Winter). She is the coordinator of the first and only Sogetsu "Study Group" in Romania.

🌹She has held ikebana workshops several times for members of the diplomatic corps or the International Women Association, at the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Romania.

She has held an ikebana demonstration at the Romanian embassy in Tokyo, at the invitation of the Romanian Cultural Institute. She has exhibited at the National Museum of Art of Romania, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Cărturești, USAMV, etc.

She has held demonstrations and workshops at TIFF, the Japanese Embassy stand at Bookfest, the JNTO stand at the International Tourism Fair, and created ikebana structures for the launch of the latest version of the Assassin's Creed game.

🌹Andreea invites you to an ikebana workshop with fresh and unconventional materials. You will be invited to explore the beauty of Japanese floral arrangements from a creative and surprising perspective. We will enjoy the combination of fresh materials with unusual elements to discover new possibilities of artistic expression.

The workshop is suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners. Together we will try to find the harmony between tradition and originality.

🌻CAMELIA ILEANA ȚÎRLESCU is the one who will initiate you into the secrets of the art of pressed flowers, OSHIBANA! In the images you can see some of the creations of those who participate in her workshops, adults and children.

🌻Her Oshibana workshop within the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59) will be on Saturday, October 18, at 6:00 PM.

For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

🌻Camelia is an Ikebana artist, floral designer, a warm person, with a sunflower soul, open to all those who are ready to receive her light.

She studied Ikebana with unusual passion and devotion, currently completing level 5, and will soon receive her Sogetsu school teacher certification, with the flower name Chī 椿愛.

She is also the logistics director of the Ikebana International Bucharest Association.

🌻We congratulate her wholeheartedly on her bright journey on the Flower Path, with joy every day!

Camelia, about herself:

"Flowers have always been close to me, and for a few years I have started to see them not just as a fleeting beauty, but as a language through which a story can be told.

I work with pressed flowers, where the fragility of the petals becomes resistance over time. I like to create paintings, bookmarks and greeting cards that preserve the memory of a moment and transform it into a simple, yet emotional gift.

Ikebana is the other universe I find myself in. For me, it does not mean just a floral arrangement, but a form of balance, a silent dialogue between space, line and flower. In ikebana I discovered that both absence and emptiness can be full of meaning.

I like to think that there is a natural connection between pressed flowers and ikebana: both transform the ephemeral into artistic expression, preserving the beauty of nature in a new and surprising form.

Thus, each flower becomes a piece of art, a gesture of beauty that brings us closer to nature and the peace it brings.”

Here is the link to her website: https://www.sufrageriacameliei.ro/

🪷MĂDĂLINA CEANGĂU is the one who will initiate us into the secrets of Sumi-e painting (Japanese-style ink painting).

🪷In the picture you can see her Sumi-e painting with our national flower, the peony, which she created with the aim of becoming the logo of our Association, Ikebana International Bucharest.

Her Sumi-e workshop within the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59) will be on October 18 at 4:00 PM.

For information and registration, please write to us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

🪷Mădălina is the artistic director of our Association Ikebana International Bucharest, but more than that she is a complex artist, whose sensitive soul vibrates in the delicate chords of traditional Japanese art, be it Ikebana, Sumi-e or the Haiku poem.

In recent years, she has taken the Sogetsu Ikebana certified course, and will soon receive her first diploma as an Ikebana teacher, with the flower name Reika 嶺花. We congratulate her with all our hearts and wish her a serene journey, in the pure atmosphere of the heights where the flower of her soul resides🪷

🪷Her own words, about herself:

"The fascination with Japanese culture began with a small step: the curious eyes of a child who had not yet reached school, but who looked at the time-faded images of "different paintings" and "photos" of ladies with unusual hairstyles and "dresses", images collected in what seemed like a calendar album. She learned that they were called stamps and geishas and existed in a distant country, Japan.

The years have disintegrated everything that had been palpable in the child's hands at that time, but the memory has kept the spark. Stepping into adolescence, the search began: first there were the colors. What did the stamps look like? How were they drawn?

Then came the words: the first authors of Japanese literature read...and haiku..

Settling on the thread of life after university, another search ...Kado. What could be more wonderful than flowers and color? Few resources and clumsy, but sincere floral arrangements. A stop on the road: what is it like to learn Japanese?

The meeting in 2019 with the one who will put a real ikebanist's scissors and a kenzan in the hands of the eternal seeker, Sanda Lazur.

The journey on the "Flower Path" continues today, alongside sensei Florentina Vinica Barbu. Other roads open, but for the child who looked curiously at the images of "different paintings", each ikebana created represents a new beginning... along this path, he explores other worlds that enrich his knowledge: sumi-e."

Florentina Vinica Barbu is the founder and president of the Ikebana International Association Bucharest Chapter #269.

Certified Ikebana teacher of the second degree Sanyo in the Sogetsu school, with the flower name 愛花 Aika (Flower of Love), conferred by her Ikebana teacher, Matsumura Rumiko Sensei (Riji).

PhD candidate in horticulture, member of the Sogetsu Teachers' Association and ISIR / International Society of Ikebana Research (you can find more information about her here).

Her workshop at the Bucharest Ikebana Festival will be on October 19, at 5:00 PM, with the theme: "Me in Ikebana - The Journey to Myself on the Path of Flowers"

Florentina teaches Ikebana courses and workshops under the principle of Hana Kokoro 花こころ (Flower Heart). In this program, participants learn the principles of Ikebana, but also become familiar with elements of Japanese culture, the history of Ikebana or Zen concepts.

“Kokoro こころ” is a Japanese word that reflects the idea of ​​mind, spirit and soul as One, but also refers to the idea of ​​essence, wisdom, even sincerity. These nuances are lost in translation, the word usually being translated as “heart”.

The main elements of an ikebana arrangement, Heaven, Man and Earth, describe our inner and outer Universe, contained in a vessel. Creating harmony in an Ikebana arrangement leads to its recreation in our soul. The most hidden treasures of the soul will thus be revealed. At the same time, the beauty and harmony of the flowers will transform our soul, and balance will be restored, inside and out. Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of the Sogetsu school, said: “Flowers become human in Ikebana”. And we will have a flower soul.

We will try to discover the answer to the question “Who am I?” together, petal by petal, until we reach our flower soul.

The search for the ultimate essence of all things in this world ultimately leads us to our soul.