{"id":259,"date":"2012-10-17T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/wp\/?p=259"},"modified":"2015-07-31T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:54:26","slug":"15th-century-style-sunamono-rikka-arrangement-made-for-inaugural-meeting-of-north-american-japanese-garden-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"15th-Century-style Sunamono Rikka arrangement made for inaugural meeting of North American Japanese Garden Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural meeting of North American Japanese Garden Association (NAJGA) was held on October 12-14, 2012 in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>NAJGA asked the Ikebana International Chaper 66 (Denver Chapter) for flower arrangements at the dinner ceremony.<br \/>\nAs a member of the Ikebana International Chaper 66, Kazuko made this 15th-Century-style Sunamono Rikka arrangement. This is not a Bonsai! The pine tree consists of branches cut from lodgepole pines by Kazuko&#8217;s student, Bill Stufflebeem, from his land in the Colorado mountains. They are cut and assembled to look like a natural beauty of the tree, with screws and hidden nails.<br \/>\nIt took about two days to prepare and build this arrangement, with a table saw for a sharp straight cut of the main trunk, an electric saw, an electric drill, an electric screw driver, and other power tools.<\/p>\n<p>Kazuko does the final adjustment on site.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp_images\/RikkaSunamono2012Oct\/P1000448.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to see more pictures, click &#8220;Continue reading -&gt;&#8221; below &#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp_images\/RikkaSunamono2012Oct\/P1000458.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp_images\/RikkaSunamono2012Oct\/P1000462.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp_images\/RikkaSunamono2012Oct\/P1000464.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp_images\/RikkaSunamono2012Oct\/P1000466.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural meeting of North American Japanese Garden Association (NAJGA) was held on October 12-14, 2012 in Denver. NAJGA asked the Ikebana International Chaper 66 (Denver Chapter) for flower arrangements at the dinner ceremony. As a member of the Ikebana International Chaper 66, Kazuko made this 15th-Century-style Sunamono Rikka arrangement. This is not a Bonsai! The pine tree consists of branches cut from lodgepole pines by Kazuko&#8217;s student, Bill Stufflebeem, from his land in the Colorado mountains. They are cut and assembled to look like a natural beauty of the tree, with screws and hidden nails. It took about two days to prepare and build this arrangement, with a table &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/?p=259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,25],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showsandpresentations","tag-rikka","tag-sunamono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazukokozai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}