Koringa is a style of flower arranging inspired by founder Okada Mokichi’s flower arranging method, which was an important part of his daily life. With a deep connection to flowers, Okada places great importance on perceiving the life in each material and presenting its
beauty while respecting nature. The Sangetsu School offers two options for learning flower arranging: the Koringa Course and the Flower Salon Round Table Culture Club. Unlike traditional Ikebana schools, Koringa emphasizes the mental skills of communicating with flowers as living beings.
Korinka flower arrangement is an arrangement of flowers according to the wishes of the flowers, starting from standing in the place where the arrangement will be made. Even in this first step, you must begin with a calm mind, saying “From now on, I will arrange flowers.” Because when you are irritated, angry, or lack concentration, you will not be able to receive the message from the flowers. (The atmosphere sent out by the flowers) is also related to a calm state of mind. Therefore, it is a beginning with a calm mind, saying “From now on, I will arrange flowers.”
Or even in the process of looking at plants, all the flowers in their actual state. The purpose is to communicate with the flowers because each tree that grows with the power of nature has its own beauty. By being there, we will look at each flower that is there. When we feel love for the flowers and have the thought of trying to understand the flowers. Then the first communication (soul connection) will occur. When communication (soul connection) occurs, we will be able to communicate with the flowers that cannot speak.
These are just a few of the steps in Koringa flower arranging, which aims to help us understand nature and see the beauty of nature as it is. Many people who learn Koringa flower arranging report feeling calm, peaceful, and getting to know themselves in another way, including sometimes having various feelings that arise while arranging flowers.
As the flower arranger of ” Pleun Dok Mai or HANARAKU” who teaches Korinka flower arrangement said,
“Throughout the time I was studying Korinka flower arrangement, whenever I had free time, I tried arranging vases with flowers and plants inside the house. I found that every flower, every petal, every branch and leaf of the plant invited us to experience the beauty of nature at that moment.
Korinka flower arrangement is a creation of art from nature that invites us to truly come back to ourselves, from choosing the location, looking at the flowers and plants, examining the vase, pouring water, cutting a branch and placing it in the vase, even stepping back to admire the work.
Every step of Koringa flower arrangement allows us to put all our inner feelings aside. Our eyes find the beauty and colors of flowers, leaves, and branches. Our hands touch the surfaces, feeling the smoothness, roughness, and bends that nature has given us through the สมัคร ufabet body of plants. Even the details of the vase have a healing effect, restoring our inner state. And these are Koringa, the flower of light.”