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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
THE SCHOOLS OF JAPANESE
FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
I. Ikenobu. 700 a.d.
Ikenobu was commenced by Ono-no-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 manner. 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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