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<”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.> Noh no Ikebana for an entrance hall or a living room should go along with the surroundings. They should fit in well with the surroundings in size of course, but it’s also important for you to pay attention not to hide pictures and other small home decor items that are already there. Having a … Continue reading →

Things found in deep mountains <”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.> For No no Ikebana, we use every kind of farming tools and instruments such as wooden hammers, baskets, weeders, and threshers including those in old days. Using big items like threshers, you can create an arrangement with depth by putting vegetables and wild plants in front. They are also … Continue reading →

Members of Noh no Ikebana Tokyo Group held an exhibition of their arrangements on October 6, 2016 at one of the major plant nurseries in Tokyo, Shindo Sogo Engei Center in the city of Musashimurayama. The arrangements are created using agricultural products and old agricultural implements to give new lives to the obsolete instruments. The leader of the group, Yoko Hamanaka, 73, said, “I hope this will offer an opportunity for everyone to recall a life on a farm in old times.” The old farming utensils belong to Susumu Shindo, a 65-year-old manager of the plant nursery. He has been collecting old farming tools such as daihachi guruma (a large, … Continue reading →

The end of the summer <”Noh no Ikebana” is an art of arranging agricultural pThe end of the summerroducts 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.> Arrangements with deep, large containers with a wide opening such as ittomasu (a large wooden bucket to measure rice), seoikago (a bamboo pannier) and a hibachi (a porcelain brazier) have strong impact, and they’ll be good event floral decors. Just having one arrangement is already … Continue reading →