水無月June
まだ家内工業が必要とされていた1970年代のはじめ、硝子管を切って花器もできるよ、という職人さんと巡り合う。金沢大学病院の路地裏で病院や学校からの注文に応じて、すぐに適えられるようにと、様々な硝子管が壁に立てかけられていた玄関先、こんな仕事は私の時代でもう終わりですとお聞きして、最後のお客さんだったかも知れない若かった私と小父さんとのやりとりが彷彿とする。
数十年ぶりに箱から取り出してみると、何時まで経っても仕舞った日のままの硝子器、なんだか愛しみが湧き、空気中に弾む蔓性植物を手におさめて誰にともなくこれでいいですか？という気持ちを添えて挿す。
花材
あけび、むべ、ばら、山帰来、野イチゴ、ポジャギ
器
硝子器
In the early 1970s, when domestic industry was still needed, I met a craftsman who said he could cut glass tubes and make flower vases. His workshop was located on the alleyway behind the Kanazawa University Hospital. Various glass tubes were hung on the wall, ready to meet orders from hospitals and schools. “I am probably the last generation doing this type of craftwork”. I suddenly remember the exchange between the experienced craftsman and young me, who might have been the last customer of his.
When I take them out of the box for the first time in decades, the glass vases are still the same as the day I put them away. They tugged at my heart. I held a vine plant bouncing in the air and arranged it into those vases, asking myself “Is this right?” to no one in particular.
Materials used in the flower arrangement
Akebi (Akebia quinata), Mube (Japanese staunton-vine), rose, Sankirai (Smilax glabra), wild strawberry,Pojyagi
Base
glass vases
Photos by Nik van der Giesen
道念邦子 Kuniko Donen
14歳より生け花をはじめる。
花仕事「季刊誌・動橋（いぶりばし）」
酒歳時記「山乃尾」（やまのお）「金城楼」（きんじょうろう）
「コンテンポラリーいけばな作品集」婦人画報社 掲載
「葉蘭」（はらん）「松」主婦の友社 掲載
2006年より曹洞宗廣誓寺（こうせいじ）の行事の花を生ける
2007年より韓国にて草藁（くさわら）工芸をはじめる
個展・グループ展多数
Started Ikebana practice at age of 14.
Worked with: the quarterly magazine ‘Iburibashi’;
‘Sake Poetry: Yamanoo restaurant; Kinjyoro restaurant;
among others. Featured in ‘Contemporary Ikebana Collection’ (publisher: Fujingaho).
Featured in ‘Haran’ and ‘Matsu’ (publisher: SHUFUNOTOMO Co., Ltd.).
Has been making arrangements for events at Kouseiji Buddhism temple since 2006.
Started Kusawara Craft in South Korea from 2007.
Has been exhibiting in a number of solo and group exhibitions.
photo:Nik van der Giesen
