Author: Deshima

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Flower will break language barrier

日本語；西村花店

Of course I love music, but I have felt something like guilty to music.

Because I gave up practicing a piano after I had learned for many years.

It was the first time to quit something with my will.

So I know how difficult it is to play instruments well.

That is why I said “Flower is the same ” after a hesitation,

when I was talking with musicians about “Music breaks language barrier”

I was sure that flower is the same.

But I was not sure whether flowers I arranged had worth to a music

based on their huge efforts.

 

Today, I was happy to see my flower were suit to the church

and Bach.

I am very happy to go back to music

after I gave up it and found another thing.

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Bach and Spiraea

日本語

I will present my flower work to a concert at Maarten Luther Kerk.

While the play “Sonata for violin and harpsichord No. 3, BWV 1016”,

I will exhibit arranging ikebana work.

 

Today, they had a rehearsal.

I took cherry blossoms, roses, and spiraeas.

And vases are created by Marten, the pianist.

 

I did not so much interesting “a collaboration of music and flower”.

But today, I felt it when I hold a spiraea,

“it suits with Bach”.

 

I was surprised what I felt and my hands stopped.

I have never felt like that.

But two musicians also stopped their hands and told me

it is beautiful.

I was moved close to crying.

The sonata of Bach they were playing was beautiful and

spiraea were really suit with it.

We all felt same things beautiful.

 

I always try to arrange flowers to suit each places.

Musics make an air at the place.

Now I believe there is a flower suit to the music

and that flower will break the language barriers.

 

Ayumi, Marten, Thank you for telling me about it.

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Heel erg bedankt

I had looked for bamboos the last week to create ikebana vase,

then I found it in a doityourself shop yesterday!

It was so huge that I was able to hung around whole day. They had Buddha or flamingo statues and bamboos too!

It was very funny that Dutch man and Japanese woman were buying 4 bamboos

the length of which is more than 2m in the early morning!

While I was laughing, he cut them, and smoothed their edges

and created vases for ikebana!

That was amazing.

I will arrange ikebana for a concert in a church on Sunday!

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Ryoko Nishimura

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Hotus VU

Goede middag!

I went to Hotus UV looking for bamboos.

I will use bamboos to create vases for the concert in  church invited by Ayumi.

 

Hotus VU is the part of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

It was the longest tram trip for me (30 minutes though) and

The scenery was different from the center.

 

I didn’t get bamboos there but I was lucky to see their huge plants collections!!!

 

 

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 Ryoko Nishimura

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A view from away

日本語；西村花店

Hoi!

It was Japan Market at “Japan Cultural Exchange” ( next to my house).

I presented ikebana works there.

 

When I went to flower stands and markets,

willows looked pretty close to Japanese one.

So I took willows at first, then narcissusses and tulips

because they are very available here.

 

But I got surprised when I started arranging willows in ikebana.

They were actually from Japanese one.

They were thinner and squiggle on everywhere.

Its natural shape will be nice when I arrange into  a vase

but it wasn’t a right way to force forming to exact Japanese traditional shape.

conversely narcissusses and tulips I was thinking about how to use their differences

were simply arranged.

 

I found that I have to see differences of flowers

and using them as they are.

Here, I am in Holland, not Japan.

We always say

ikebana should be natural as the flower is.

I caught such basic thing

after I left my country.

 

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My favorite skies

I was asked “Where is the favorite place in Canada?”

When I leaver there after my summer holiday when I was 19.

It was hard to make it one
because I visited so many places with my friend’s truck from Vancouver to Edmonton.
I dared to say “sky!”.
I was so surprised when I looked over the huge sky
like 500 times as big as Japanese one just after arriving at the Vancouver airport!
I’ve never forgot of the sky from the back of the truck.
Today, I found I’ve took the same picture everyday
after my stay in Amsterdam for a week.
It is sky.
The sun goes up slowly and goes down the same here.
It’s never big as Canada but the blue when the sun goes down is beautiful.
I can see many kinds of blues before it gets night(Even night, it’s still dark blue).
Bright right sky blue in a day time turns just blue and it goes slowly to cobalt blue.
I love flowers, peoples, the air of the city  here, and the sky too.
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Een cadeautje voor de deur

When I opened the door to go out,

I found rabbits at my feet!

Mayu, who is living upstairs, left them.

She said she got many chocolates of Easter in her working place.

Surprise will be the special present!

I could only  bite their bottom!

I started my day with happiness with these sweet rabbits!

Thank you Mayu,

What am I going to leave at her door?

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Musicians in Amsterdam

Today I visited Ayumi’s house.

She is a  recorder player and teach it in an international school.

She also organize a concert in a church.

I accidentally met Marten,  Ayumi’s fiend there.

He is a pianist and come to go throw a rehearsals with Ayumi

for the next concert on 19th April in the church.

They played Bach with a cembalo and recorder, it was just amazing.

Kids are very happy to grow up in her music.

He talked about when he played organ with choir from Ghana.

“When I finished playing, I was asked ‘Are you from Ghana?’ ”

He say with laughing.

“At first they were not very friendly, but once I played a organ,

We got to be friends quickly,

Music has no borders”

“Same flower” I said it.

Ayumi send me a message at the night.

“I believe that I can sweep away borders between age or culture or position

with this small recorder

It will be beautiful if we can share the same happiness simply with art ”

They invited me to arrange flowers on the next concert!

We Japanese has created a lot of rules for flower in ikebana.

There is no meaning to explain the rule to the world ,

But I also believe it can sweep away borders

that we have confirmed what is beautiful  again and again in the long history.

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1st step to the flower exhibition

I visited a volunteer community with Hannie today

to ask for some help to work out our flower exhibition in a canal.

They clean rubbish in a canal once a month.

It was lucky that they were very cooperative for us!

 

They offered to us to join the cleaning with a “free boat”!

It was the first time I was on a canal.

The city looked more beautiful than I always see on the ground.

But, I was sorry, there were so many rubbishes in the canal

I didn’t see from the ground…

It is the same as my city Kyoto.

Some people leave them at the beautiful city,

then some people clean it to keep the city beautiful.

 

Anyway,  we get the possibility to use this wood framed plants box!

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My first Dutch lesson

At first, let me describe my apartment.

The house next to my place is a Japanese stuff shop ” ‘t Japanse winkeltje” on the ground floor,

and a Japanese culture center  ” ‘t Japnase cultureel centrum” on the first floor.

Emiko is the manager of the center.

She’s already suggested me to join a lot of events there! (Thank you Emiko)

 

Today, I joined a Dutch lesson.

Our teacher is Carolien.

She is pretty and fun and speaks fluent Japanese!

And students are Masaki and Kyusan and me.

They are both artists and have already lived in Holland a few years.

They are calm people but have energy and love to their art.

It was very nice to see them and I’m looking forward to the next lesson!

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