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Rear Spring Room
Rear Spring Room empowers budding and professional florists by providing resources, inspirations and tools related to Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging.
We serve not only Ikebanists, but also floral designers, and arrangers from all sorts of floristry practices. We believe the precision of Ikebana–its understanding of line and balance is applicable other schools of floral arrangements. It is in our hopes that more floral arrangers will see Ikebana beyond a closed category of forms but rather an open philosophy and a set of techniques to take inspiration from.
Rear Spring Journal
On our blog, we discuss floristry tools and introduce different topics on Ikebana regularly, from basic forms of different schools to different containers, tips and how-tos, and of course – the beautiful arrangements from our fellow ikebanists and florists too.
Kenzan
New tools are new methods. Objects are the best inspiration because they change the way we work.
Our online store here sells kenzan, the pin frogs used in Ikebana. This tool is fundamental to the forms and composition in Ikebana. Kenzan encourages forms to be more "lifted" and upright. There is no requirement to hide the kenzan (as compared to flower foam) and thus it allows designs to be more minimal and finished with less stems.