Activities || Our Schools || Visiting Masters || Bibliography

Visiting Ikebana Masters often gave a ‘performance’ by putting together a large arrangment ‘live’ before an audience. Sometimes to music, choreographed or not, the performances never failed to dazzle. These visits which included workshops, offered opportunities to learn and to be inspired and invigorated.The list of our distinguished visitors was compiled from an incomplete collection (1960 to 1999) of past Chapter meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs and news articles.

1964 May
Hasegawa, Nisha – Saga Misho

1967 September

Maruyama, Suiei – Sogetsu
Ono, Sosui – Sogetsu

1968 November/December
Hasegawa, Kikushu – Saga Goryu
and 13 Master Teachers of Saga

1969 November
Yamamoto, Saigetsu – Kofu
Mori, Isshin – Enshu

1970 July
Tsujii, Hakushu – Saga Goryu
Noguchi, Seifu – Saga Goryu

1971 September
Yamada, Yoii – Sogetsu

1973 August
Tokuda, Risei – Koryu Shosai-kai

1974 July
Minami, Shugetsu – Saga Goryu

1974 October
Teshigahara, Kasumi – Sogetsu

1980 March
Tomita, Mutsuo – Ohara

1982 March
Sparnon, Norman J. – Sogetsu

1982 October
Minami, Shugetsu – Saga Goryu

1982 October
Yoshimura, Kasen – Ryusei-Ha

1982 November
Park, Young Hee – Ikenobo

1984 April
Tomita, Masatoshi – Ohara

1984 October
Nakabayashi, Takashi – Sogetsu

1987 October
Sasaki, Shuho – Sogetsu

1991 April
Oehler, Sadako – Ikenobo

1991 May
Suzuki, Takeshi – Sogetsu

1991 October
Kobayashi, Tadao – Nissin-ryu Chuyukai School

1992 April
Tsujii, Hakushu – Saga Goryu

1993 October
Minami, Shugetsu– Saga Goryu

1995 March
Richards, Jack – Sogetsu

1995 April
Kumazawa, Senka – Ryusei-Ha

1996 March
Noguchi, Seifu – Saga Goryu

1997 May
Yoshimura, Kasen – Ryusei-Ha

1998 April
Naruse, Kobai – Chiko

1999 March
Ohtsubo, Kosen – Ryusei-Ha

2011 September
Kawana, Tetsunori – Sogetsu