My personal Ikebana history

7-28-2 Okusawa, Setagayaku, Tokyo

• 1972 - Took Teaching Certificate 4th grade through the late Mrs. Setsuri Akagi, continuing taking  advanced Teaching Certificates year by year.
• 1986 - Opened an Ikebana Class “Kabo UOE” for Japanese people and foreigners: they were American, Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Canadian, Chinese, English, German, Indian, Korean, Madagascan, Malaysian and New Zealander.
• 1998-'99 - Had an Ikebana Class in Oxford, U.K.
• 2003 - Joined Ikebana International.  Worked for Hqs and for Tokyo Founding Chapter as one of Directors for 12 years. Worked for I.I. World Convention as Board member every five year. Attended at I.I. Asian and European Regional Conferences.
• 2003-'04 - Did Ikebana demonstrations at the Women's Club in Cambridge Univ. U.K.
• 2010 - Took “Riji”, the highest degree of Teaching Certificate.
• 2012-'13 - Stayed in Leipzig, Germany. Had an Ikebana class for florists in Leipzig, Germany.
• 2012 - Held an Ikebana exhibition with two Polish friends in Warsaw, Poland.
• 2013 – Was dispatched to Orenburg, Russia to have Ikebana demonstrations at Orenburg University and at the Tourist Center sponsored by Japan-Russia Society of Tokyo.
• 2015-'18 - Taught Ikebana to students at Oyamadai State Junior High School in Tokyo.    

・What`s Yuzen?

It is painting on kimono.

300 years ago, Miyazaki Yuzensai, a Kyoto fan painter, came up with the idea.

The method is to put glue on the outline and then add color to it, called Itome Yuzen.

・My Yuzen

I mainly do wireless Yuzen, which is a type of Yuzen where I paint directly onto the fabric.

I come up with the pattern, create the design, paint it, and do the finishing touches. I do it all.

Once I paint something, it doesn't disappear, so I can't make mistakes.

Owner and artist at ikebanaPRO Floral Art Studio, Grimbergen, Belgium

Member of: Sogetsu Teachers Association, Ikebana International, “Azalea” group

Ikebana Gallery Board member

Boom TV expert

Thursd. Floral industry platform contributor

From Kyoto, Japan.

Education:

• Kyoto College of Foreign Studies

• YWCA Osaka Japanese Language Teacher Course

She is a Japanese language teacher and has been working as a teacher for many years, in Japan and abroad, in Hungary and Poland.

She is Japanese traditional Tea Ceremony teacher and also Saga Goryu Ikebana teacher.

She is a member of Ikebana International Bucharest Chapter and she will be in Romania from September till December 2024, with the objective to teach Japanese language for people in Bucharest, Romania, within the University of Agronomic Science and Veterinary Medicine, USAMVB, and have cultural exchange also through Ikebana.