Ohara Ikebana Styles and Forms
August 31, 2025
At our Columbus demonstration on August 13, Kamo-sensei introduced us to something many of our students had never seen before: a Rimpa-cho arrangement. Spanning two containers, the design featured chrysanthemums, stargazer lilies, red maple, and monte casino, woven together with dramatic dried weeping mulberry branches that had been painted metallic gold. Kamo-sensei brought those shimmering branches with him from Japan, and they became the unifying thread of the composition.
