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 Hon-or 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; In-grid Lȕders, 2015 Award of Honor winner and founding president of NAOTA; Associate Professor Hi-rokazu 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 Septem-ber 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 Bow-ers. Much more about that in the next issue. Sincerely,

E-Ling Lou

President, NAOTA

Judy Hansen, Past President, and Beverly Maurer, member from Southeastern Chapter enjoying the Welcoming Reception.

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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 work- shops – 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 stu-dents 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 flow-ers 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 The Group B Radial Form Front view in a compote Water Reflecting Style of green huckleberry, 3 hot with red anthurium, ruscus, and carnations. pink carnations, and leatherleaf fern.

and Tuesday Afternoon

An upright Heika Style of coral dogwood and Color Scheme Moribana Water Reflecting Style using Dracena Asiatic lily and Mr. Yokohigashi. 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 ma- terials 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, min-iature white chrysanthemums and umbrella fern to arrange a Landscape Moribana Realistic Method Near View.

Thursday’s Day of Classes

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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 di-rected 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. Mat-erials 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 arrange-ment 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 Realis-tic Method - Mountain Scenery in an oblong container. Materials in-clude Carissa (natal plum) Kikyo (Chinese bell flower) fringed iris, moun-tain 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 heli-conia—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 ambassa-dor in Buenos Aires. The chapter president, Leticia Tanoue created an arrangement to mark the occa-sion. Their first workshop was held on January 25 at the Arts Forum, also in Buenos Aires. They fol-lowed 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 Bue-nos Aries where Maria Ester Agúero, Maria Rosa Alonso, Nélida Casali, Marta Cettour, Mirta Cor-tizo, 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.

- Correction -

René Mutti, who received his Grand Master Degree on May 15 in Kobe, Japan was listed incor-rectly as being from France. Mr. Mutti is from Switzerland.

Three arrangements from Japan in Puerto Madryn. They are left to right, Com-bined Form with sanseveria, lilium, and rhododendron by Noriko Taniguchi; vari-ation 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.