October 18 and 19 - Kyoto Professor Dan Lu
Professor Dan Lu
2010 Graduated Chiba University with a Bachelor of Science of environmental
2014 Tokyo University with a Master of Forest Landscape Planning and Design
2024 Tokyo University with a PhD of Forest Landscape Planning and Design
2011 Began studying Ikenobo ikebana
2018 Completed Tokubetsu-ka, advanced course at the Ikenobo Central Training Institute, Ikenobo Headquarters, Kyoto
2019~2024 Completed Below Sogotokubetsu-ka course
Free Style with Professor Manabu Noda
Rikka with Professor Shinichi Shimizu
2016, 2017, 2018 Awarded Tachibana prize
Gallery 1: Rikka Shofutai
Rikka is the oldest style of ikebana, established in the Muromachi Period (1338-1573), and is considered the foundation of Ikenobo. Traditional rikka shofutai typically consists of 7 or 9 yakueda and ashirai, which are supporting elements, all of which work together to create harmony and to depict a natural landscape of mountains, rocks, waterfalls, and rivers. The three different styles of rikka are: Sugushin Rikka (shin stands upright), Nokishin Rikka (shin is slanted), Sunanomono Rikka, also called sunamono, in which the form is more curved and relaxed, is wider than it is tall, and is contained in a low, wide basin, sunabachi.
Gallery 2: Shoka Nishuike
Nishuike is a shoka shofutai using two different species of plant material. The shin and soe yakueda are woody, branch materials without flowers or with small flowers, or can be grassy materials, in either case requiring a second material with flowers to be used as tai to support the shin and soe. In this case the tai group is called nejime ("something which completes or draws the arrangement together at its base"). The shin/soe material is the main material and because the nejime material is meant as support, it should be less prominent. Nejime flowers should be small and the stems must have both flowers and leaves.
Gallery 3: Kabuwake-Ike
For this style, a shoka shofutai is divided into 2 kenzans. One holds the shin and soe and the other the tai group. A small tai-za and soe-za tie them together
