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NAOTA Newsletter
October 2015
Mahalo Honolulu! A Good Time was Had by All!
Pictured above are some of the people who contributed to the success of the Honolulu conference, as well as to
NAOTA and its past and present conferences. Shown are, left to right: Irene Nakamoto, president of Honolulu
Chapter and chair of the Honolulu Conference, NAOTA’s 14th; E-Ling Lou current president of NAOTA and
chair of the 2010 NAOTA Conference held in Chicago; Edith Tanaka, NAOTA winner of the 2005 Award of Honor and chair of the 1st NAOTA Conference, held in Honolulu in 2002; Chief Executive of Ohara School, Wakako
Ohara who, among her many accomplishments was the force behind the founding of NAOTA in 2002; Ingrid Lȕders, 2015 Award of Honor winner and founding president of NAOTA; Associate Professor Hirokazu Yokohigashi of the Ohara School of Ikebana, and—finally, Shofu Shohara, in 2011 the 4th winner of
the Award of Honor and before that the chair of the 2nd NAOTA Conference in Pasadena in 2003.
Welcome to the Memories
of Honolulu
Dear Members of NAOTA,
It is a pleasure to welcome all of our NAOTA members to
see the 14th Annual Conference held in Honolulu September 14—18 as seen through the lens of the camera. We
hope that you will enjoy the photos that were captured for
you by Gail Newman, conference photographer. Gail is
from Rochester, New York and a member of the Finger
Lakes Study Group and Northern Ohio Chapter of Ohara
School. For information about receiving the complete disk
with all the pictures taken please E-mail Gail at
ggg137@aol.com
Although this issue of our Newsletter is mainly about the
Honolulu Conference, save the dates of August 22—26,
2016 for the Boston/Cambridge Conference. We can tell
you that the chairs are Hiroko Matsuyama and Russell Bowers. Much more about that in the next issue.
Judy Hansen, Past President, and Beverly Maurer,
member from Southeastern Chapter enjoying the
Welcoming Reception.
Sincerely,
E-Ling Lou
President, NAOTA
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More Pictures from
Welcoming Reception
Left to right: Minako Miyazaki, Ingrid Lȕders, Mitsuko Maruyama,Yaeko Ohta, Setsuko Iwami,
Yoko Tahara, Jane Bell; seated: Mr. Yokohigashi, Mitsuko Umemoto, and Kyoko Oshiro.
Left to right: Satsuki Palter, Juan Fernández Trillo, Nélida Casali, Noriko
Taniguchi, Miss Ohara, and Leticia Tanoue.
The ladies from Canada - seated are Penny Davis, Nancy MacLeod,
Kyoko Kosaki; and standing are Lynne Williams, Grace Furuya. and
Lorian Roberts.
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Behind the Scenes -
The Bucket Brigade
Getting the flowers ready for all of the functions of the Conference
These are the ladies who put in countless hours getting ready for the workshops and demonstrations. They deserve
everyone’s heartiest congratulations and thanks for all their hard work. On the left conference co-chair Linda Kamiyama;
in the pink shirt Elaine Arita and on the right conference co-chair Irene Nakamoto with committee members in between.
All counted, wrapped, and sorted into who gets what.
Then onto the trolley to be delivered to the workshops – two every morning and two in the afternoon for three days. That is a job! We should all appreciate
what these volunteers do. Thank you.
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And now— the Workshops
Are you ready to see the pictures—there are four for each session. One for the morning session of the A students and the other for the B group. In the afternoon it is the same. There are three days of workshops with
four groups every day for a total of 12 finished by the instructor. As far as buckets of flowers you will have 33
students in Group A and 21 in Group B. That adds up to a total of 54 students each session. Of course, the
prep ladies have to add flowers for the instructor for each of the sessions and now our total for buckets of flowers is 34 and 22. There also have to be back-up buckets for breakage of stems or right lengths. Just hold your
heads in disbelief and look at the pictures and believe that it all happened. Impressive for everyone involved
from instructor on down. And this is just for the workshops.
The Tuesday Morning Workshop
A round suiban holds a Color Scheme Moribana
Water Reflecting Style of green huckleberry, 3 hot
pink carnations, and leatherleaf fern.
The Group B Radial Form Front view in a compote
with red anthurium, ruscus, and carnations.
and Tuesday Afternoon
An upright Heika Style of coral dogwood and
Asiatic lily and Mr. Yokohigashi.
Color Scheme Moribana Water Reflecting Style using Dracena
Godseffiana and red roses.
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Moving On to the Wednesday Classes
Shown above is a Landscape Moribana Realistic
Method done for Group A morning class. The materials are green huckleberry, butterfly aster, and
umbrella fern.
Group B created this Heika arrangement to the right using
Purple liatris and yellow chrysanthemums.
Afternoon Arrangements
Shown to the left is a Hana-kanade with a focus on the season. Group A
created this design using equisetum, white dendrobium, leatherleaf fern,
and light yellow spray roses. Group B worked with green huckleberry, miniature white chrysanthemums and umbrella fern to arrange a Landscape
Moribana Realistic Method Near View.
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Thursday’s Day of Classes
In the morning Group A worked on a Rimpa design
using Asiatic lily, Matsumoto aster, and Surinum
cherry. Shown at the right is how the Group B
class’s Hana-kanade,focused on color—purple
liatris, pink anthurium, leatherleaf fern, and yellow
spray carnations.
For the afternoon class Mr. Yokohigashi directed all the students to create their own Free
Selection. The only directive was that students
in Group A were to use a round suiban and
Group B students were to use a madoka. Materials would be the student’s decision.
Shown below are some of the arrangements
from the Free Selection class.
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The Demonstration by Associate Professor Yokohigashi
Mr. Yokohigashi begins the demonstration with his arrangement of Color Scheme Moribana in a round
blue glass suiban. Materials are caladium, asparagus sprengeri, and a branch of Nemuno-ki (mimosa
tree or silk tree)
Clockwise starting at upper left is a Free Style in a beige and green
vase with dried palm, cotinus, and torch ginger. The next arrangement is a Heika in a green crackled vase and the material is nandina
japonica, pine, and bronze chrysanthemum. The Hana Mai at the
left is in two brown ceramic vases with red ginger and a guava tree
branch.
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Upper left is a Bunjin, in a blue and white sometsuke, with jabotikaba,
ginger leaf stalk, and vanda orchids. Above right is a Landscape Realistic Method - Mountain Scenery in an oblong container. Materials include Carissa (natal plum) Kikyo (Chinese bell flower) fringed iris, mountain fern, and blackberry lily or leopard lily.
In the photo on the immediate left is a Landscape Realistic Method Mizumno (water scenery). Materials are equisetum, spirea thumbergii,
water lettuce, green and white grass, water lily, lotus, and driftwood.
Mr. Yokohigashi finished with the Hawaiian Rimpa shown below. It is in
two rectangular Oribe containers and the materials are two types of heliconia—rainbow and yellow Caribbean, white dendrobium, million star
gypsophila, Kalapana anthurium, and alocasia
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From the demonstration dinner, we all say
Sayonara
Members of the 2015 Conference Committee
And some of the attendees
Mahalo!
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News from the Argentina Ohara School of Ikebana
The Argentina Chapter of Ohara School of Ikebana has been very involved in showcasing the art of
Ikebana this year. In January they held their first meeting at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Buenos Aires. The chapter president, Leticia Tanoue created an arrangement to mark the occasion. Their first workshop was held on January 25 at the Arts Forum, also in Buenos Aires. They followed up with a program entitled Ikebana for Children, a winter holiday workshop in June. This was a
first time ikebana experience for 60 children between the ages of 5 and 11. Chapter members provided
warm and dedicated support.
In May club members participated in the Ohara School Autumn Exhibition at Diario de Viagero in Buenos Aries where Maria Ester Agúero, Maria Rosa Alonso, Nélida Casali, Marta Cettour, Mirta Cortizo, Marta Leboran, Susan Policelli, Delia Roldan, Noriko Taniguchi, and Leticia Tanoue.
At the Patagonian seaside town in Chubut, Argentinia, 1100 kms from Buenos Aries, chapter members
participated at the Japanese Garden Cultural and Environmental Complex in June by creating ikebana
arrangements for Japan in Puerto Madryn and holding two Ohara Demonstrations by chapter members
Maria Rosa Alonso, Nélida Casali, Maria Ester Aguero, Marta Leboran, Noriko Taniguchi, and
Leticia Tanoue.
In August they participated in a presentation along with Ikenobo and Sogetsu at the Ikebana
International Annual Exhibition. Exhibits were also planned for Orchids in Art September 11—13. And
a number of their members were at the NAOTA Conference in Honolulu September 14—18 and are
pictured on page 2 of the this newsletter. Now the chapter is busy planning the Ohara Spring Annual
Exhibition to be held in November in Buenos Aries.
Three arrangements from Japan in Puerto Madryn. They are left to right, Combined Form with sanseveria, lilium, and rhododendron by Noriko Taniguchi; variation of Heika Upright Style with orange strelitzia and papyrus by Leticia Tanoue,
and Nélida Casali with a Heika Slanting Style of Grevillea banksia and lilium.
- Correction René Mutti, who received his
Grand Master Degree on May 15
in Kobe, Japan was listed incorrectly as being from France. Mr.
Mutti is from Switzerland.