More alternatives to kenzan pinholders in Ikenobo Ikebana

In my previous tip I showed you how to use wire and uzumaki in vases with awkward apertures, or glass vases with wide open tops. These are quite modern ways to hold your flowers in Ikebana arrangements. In today’s double tip I’ll show you ancient, traditional ways using just twigs.

Both these methods have been in use by Ikenobo Ikebana masters for centuries and they really are still commonly used today. The first is a simple way to hold flowers in Nagiere style and I think many of us have exeprienced the tricky problem of holding flowers at interesting angles in this Ikenobo Ikebana form.

The second is great for shoka and its simplicity belies its usefulness in achieving the straight line of stems we want…and watch out for the final element to fix the flowers in place once you have your arrangement completed.

So Lets take a look at the video…I hope you’ll enjoy it.