Sogetsu Magazine 2025 Winter

• Price：1,980 Yen
• Softcover：88 pages
• Language：Japanese and English
• Dimensions：(W/H)210㎜/297㎜
• Date of Issue：Dec/1/2025
• Item No.：A5162

The Iemoto Interview series showcases engaging conversations between the Iemoto and notable figures from diverse fields, exploring their unique approaches. In this 36th installment, she engaged in a vibrant three-way conversation featuring copywriter Kunii Mika, the creative mind behind the Sogetsu 100th-anniversary copy, alongside this magazine’s art director, Nagai Hiroaki, who masterfully designed the centennial visuals. Together, they shared some insights and intentions behind their impactful message and visuals. Please view this together with the “Sogetsu 100th Anniversary Message”.

Sogetsu’s ikebana instruction for children began in 1965 under the second Iemoto, Kasumi.Today, the AKANE Junior Class celebrates its 36th anniversary, bringing together a diverse group of children from various nationalities, aged 3 to 18, to learn ikebana joyfully. They borrow the power of plants to express themselves fully. From the children’s works, we sense the beginning of their learning journey and the pure happiness of arranging flowers. Why not spread this happiness to more children? Works from the “Akane Junior Class Ikebana Exhibition” held this July for the first time in six years, are also introduced.

Winter is a season marked by lively, celebratory colors. Gold and silver, red and white, pine, bamboo, and citrus……. These traditional auspicious items have been gifted for generations along with the heartfelt wish, “May good fortune come to the recipient.” Brightly and spontaneously, Sogetsu ikebanists convey their diverse wishes through the art of ikebana for joy.

• Iemoto’s seasonal message ‘Things that Bloom Slowly’
• lemoto Interview My Style 36 Guest:Nagai Hiroaki, Kunii Mika
• ［feature1］Nurtured by Ikebana Teshigahara Akane and Her Junior Class
  ・Teaching Children in Akane Style
  ・Akane Junior Class Ikebana Exhibition ‘Flowers are the Heart’
  ・YOKU MOKU MUSEUM × Akane Junior Class Workshop for the Exhibition “Picasso Ceramics: Art of MITATE”

• Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition “Flower Minuet”
• ［feature2］Ikebana for Joy
  Takenaka Reiko, Katayama Ken, Nakamura Sozan, Isono Gaho, Nishiyama Kosa, Azuma Yorika,
  Sekita Ikuen, Kato Kumiko, Hiraishi Tanshuho, Sawada Koei, Ishikura Shosei, Ozawa Seiko, Genda Shiyo, Tazawa Ryo

• Artist Interview with Teshigahara Kiri : Takahashi Shinya
• Ikka-Sanbo(One kind of material in three distinctive variations) 25： Weeping willow : Sumide Bisen
• To the Cities of the World 45　Geneva Branch Elsbeth Von Siebenthal
• A complete explanation of ‘Kadensho’, which is the quintessence of Sogetsu, Part6
• SOGETSU Workshop③　Theme：In a Suiban without Kenzan