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Ikebana

6.4

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Original title

Ikebana

Year

1957

Running time

32 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Screenwriter

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast

Music

Katsutoshi Nagazawa

Cinematography

Susumu Urashima

Producer

Seinen Productions

Genre

Documentary | Half-length Film

Synopsis

Traces the history of ikebana, flower arranging: its origins, its formalization 500 years ago, the emergence of the rikka or standing flower style with its heaven-earth-man trinity, and the influence of Rikyu's simplicity. Enter the modern era, embodied at the Sogetsu School, where flower arranging is taught alongside modern sculpture and pottery. We visit a weekend class of flower arranging with novice and experienced students evaluated by a master, Sofu Teshigahara, the director's father. Then we watch the master prepare for his annual one-man show. If life is an unceasing spiritual journey, says the narrator, then art gives us the courage to go on.

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Ikebana

1957

Hiroshi Teshigahara

6.4

(68)