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Tokyo, Japan, Sogetsu School:
JAPANESE and ENGLISH TEXT. Ink name on front wrapper and front wrapper verso, a few pages written in. Red wrappers. Sogetsu-ry? is a school of Ikebana, or Japanese floral art. Sogetsu was founded by Sofu Teshigahara in 1927. Sofu's father was an Ikebana master, who taught his son from childhood. Sofu wanted to become a painter, but he found that the possibilities for creative expression in using green materials are endless, just as in painting. He found that the strict rules of traditional ikebana did not allow individual expression. He broke away from traditional ikebana and formed his school...
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