Category Archives: Noh no Ikebana

Life still in dry branches <”Noh no Ikebana” is an art of arranging agricultural products together with agricultural implements and other familiar instruments. It’s a type of Ikebana but mainly for farmers. The series “Noh no Ikebana” will show you how to best feature the materials and containers you choose, with the help of fans of this style of Ikebana nationwide.> Containers for No no Ikebana are agricultural implements and everyday tools. They are as important as materials, so let’s pay attentions when selecting your containers. Low and shallow containers are easy to handle. You can just put vegetables and flowers nicely on them and you are basically done with … Continue reading →

<Noh no Ikebana” is an art of arranging agricultural products together with agricultural implements and other familiar instruments. It’s a type of Ikebana but mainly for farmers. The series “Noh no Ikebana” will show you how to best feature the materials and containers you choose, with the help of fans of this style of Ikebana nationwide.> Fresh fruit vegetables often come in bright colors and are suitable for the arrangement to highlight the power of the agricultural products. Yellow corn, green peppers and red tomatoes are good examples. I try to keep their original shape when I use them in the arrangement. When I have a turnip or a Japanese … Continue reading →

<“Noh no Ikebana” is an art of arranging agricultural products together with agricultural implements and other familiar instruments. It’s a type of Ikebana but mainly for farmers. The series “Noh no Ikebana” will show you how to best feature the materials and containers you choose, with the help of fans of this style of Ikebana nationwide. > Good thing about leaf vegetables is freshness. They are perfect materials for expressing power and dynamics of agricultural products and beauty of rich colorful farmland. As they come in various colors and shapes, you can try different combinations or choose to use only one kind in a bundle. Chose the materials by paying … Continue reading →

One of the interesting things with “Noh no Ikebana” is the use of vegetable flowers. They’ll give you a lovely surprise of discovering how cute the flowers of vegetables are. They come in various colors and tones. So they are important elements of the arrangement. They can add pleasant scent, too. When arranging flowers, we need to be careful not to let them wither. We chose containers carefully so that we can put them in water and keep them happy. In this case, I put a flowering branch of a fruit tree in a plastic bottle and placed a stepstool which is tall enough to hide the bottle. We arrange … Continue reading →

“Noh no Ikebana” is a type of Japanese flower arrangements in which farmers arrange agricultural products using agricultural implements and other familiar instruments as containers. In this series of articles, experts of “Noh no Ikebana” from all over Japan will demonstrate how you can best arrange the materials and containers you choose. Keiko Kowata, 79, Iwate Prefecture, has 40 years of experience in Noh no Ikebana. Root vegetables are suitable for the arrangement to be displayed for a long period of time, as they often require no water. In autumn, you can use fresh vegetables with leaves in order to celebrate harvest season. In winter, it will be interesting to … Continue reading →