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“An improvisational exercise using flowers.”

“A challenging undertaking
with no rules and no promises.”

Renka is a form of ikebana first proposed by the Third Iemoto (head teacher) of the Sogetsu School, Hiroshi Teshigahara. He based it on the poetic form renga, a literary game where many poets, sharing a time and place, compose linked verses in a competitive display of wit. It claims to create a space of shared consciousness.

Flower renka takes individual arrangements and joins them to make a space rich with changes and surprise.

The arrangements are made sequentially.

How is the arranger going to relate her work to the previous arrangers?

How can the arranger provoke and challenge the next arranger?

Synchronization and rejection, the tension that is born from the battle of personality, exhibitors and audience share attention and expectation in an unpredictable world and this is the joy of renka.