“What is SOGETSU”

Sogetsu Ikebana - The Joy of Creation
In 1927, when everybody believed practicing ikebana meant following established forms, Sofu Teshigahara recognized ikebana as a creative art and founded the Sogetsu School. Anyone can enjoy Sogetsu Ikebana anytime, anywhere, using any material. You can place Sogetsu Ikebana at your door, in you living room or on your kitchen table. Sogetsu Ikebana enhances any hotel lobby or banquet room, shop windows and huge public spaces. It will suit any kind of space, Japanese or Western and enrich its atmosphere.

Flo'Work to Spread Beauty in the Society

The word Flo'Work means Flower+Work. Flo'Work is a display, which is commissioned for a public space: a hotel lobby, a banquet room, a shop window, an atrium etc. Many Sogetsu teachers are leading in this field.

Sogetsu Curriculum

		We have prepared two textbooks to enable beginners to enter the rich world of Ikebana. The study of Sogetsu Ikebana begins with the several styles embraced by the term kakei. Students first tackle these styles and the basic techniques, along with other related arts. When students have mastered these, they are then trained to express their own ideas freely through the materials.

To Become Professional

Each curriculum includes 20 lessons. If you learn three lessons per month, it will take about two years to finish the four textbooks. To master and be able to teach eighty lessons and all the necessary techniques, you will need to review some thirty or forty lessons. Then you are eligible for the fourth grade teacher's diploma. Recognized teachers of Sogetsu Ikebana must be members of the Sogetsu Teachers' Association.

Branches' Activities

There are forty-seven local branches in Japan (one for each prefecture and three in Tokyo)as well as some hundred branches overseas. These local branches hold exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations. You can continue your studies anywhere in the world since local branches will introduce you to teachers in your area.