Title: Ikebana
Country: Japan
Year: 1956
Genre: Short, Documentary
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Cast: Tomoko Naraoka and Sofu Teshigahara
Audio: Japanese
Subtitles: English str
Plot:
Traces the history of ikebana, flower arranging: its origins, its formalization 500 years ago, the emergence of the rikka or standing flower style with its heaven-earth-man trinity, and the influence of Rikyu's simplicity. Enter the modern era, embodied at the Sogetsu School, where flower arranging is taught alongside modern sculpture and pottery. We visit a weekend class of flower arranging with novice and experienced students evaluated by a master, Sofu Teshigahara, the director's father. Then we watch the master prepare for his annual one-man show. If life is an unceasing spiritual journey, says the narrator, then art gives us the courage to go on.
Note:
Sofu Teshigahara (1900–1979), Hiroshi's father, was the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana flower arranging.
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