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Founder of the Sogetsu-ryū school of ikebana

Sōfū Teshigahara (勅使河原蒼風Teshigahara Sōfū, 1900–1979) was the founder of the Sōgetsu-ryū school of ikebanaflower arranging.

Biography

He was born in Tokyo. He learned flower arranging from his father, who had studied many styles of different schools. In 1927 he started the Sōgetsu School.^[1] His son is the Japanese film director Hiroshi Teshigahara.

He believed that ikebana is an art and that the difference between the Sōgetsu School and Ikebana lies in the belief that once all the rules are learned and the techniques mastered, an unbounded field remains for freer personal expression using varied materials, not just flowers.^[2]

In 1929 he held the first Sogetsu exhibition at Ginza,^[1] in 1930 at the Josui Kaikan in Tokyo working with scrap metal, a new medium.

In 1949 the first major post-war Sōgetsu exhibition was held at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Ginza and prov