CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 



THE SCHOOLS OF JAPANESE 

 FLOWER ARRANGEMENT 



I. IKENOBU. 700 A.D. 



Ikenobu was commenced by Onono-Imoko 

 about thirteen hundred years ago. This is 

 the oldest and, to my thinking, one of the 

 most beautiful of all the schools. 



The first Ikenobu was a pupil of Soami. 

 Since then the teacher of this school is 

 always a priest of the Rokkakudo Temple 

 in Kyoto, where the lore has been handed 

 down from generation to generation and is 

 still being taught in exactly the same man- 

 ner. The priest on whom the mantle of 

 instruction falls is always called Ikenobu. 



I never enjoyed my lessons more than 

 at the Rokkakudo Temple. There at the 

 temple you arrange your flowers under 

 the guidance of other priests, but when the 



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