The 90th Sogetsu Annual Exhibition "Flowering Smile" will be held at the Nihombashi Takashimaya Department Store. There are unlimited reasons for our arranging flowers. Now matter what feelings we have in arranging flowers, we hope ikebana can be a way to impart dreams and joy to the people. Nothing would be more satisfying for us than to have the variety of works at the site expressing the thoughts and feelings of the arrangers bring you a feeling of happiness. This time we have set up a special section where arrangements featuring the curriculum of the Sogetsu New Textbooks renewed for the first time in 25 years will be displayed. We hope you will enjoy seeing the creation process cultivated through the New Textbooks studies.

*The 90th Sogetsu Annual Exhibition*
Date: November 6-11, 2008(First Term: Nov. 6-8; Second Term: Nov. 9-11)
Place: Nihombashi Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo (8th floor)
Hours: 10am-8pm (Closing at 5:30 pm on the 8th and 6:00 pm on the 11th)
Last Entry: 30 minutes before closing time.
Tickets: Advance (800 yen), Regular (1,000 yen)

*Installations by the Iemoto Akane Teshigahara
Dates: October 29 - November 11, 2008.
Place: Nihombashi Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
Main hall (1st floor) and show windows (Iemoto, Seiha Ishikawa and Koka Fukushima)

For inquiries, please contact:
Sogetsu Foundation, Overseas Affairs Department
7-2-21 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8505
FAX: 81-3-3405-4947 E-mail: overseas@sogetsu.or.jp