Overview
A workshop for medical professionals through traditional Japanese culture was jointly planned with Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.
We would like to create a place where medical professionals working on the front lines of medicine can calm their bodies and minds and reaffirm their “here and now” and not others. We will pursue the new possibilities of the “blank space” of traditional Japanese culture, including the tea ceremony.
This time, we will borrow the Zen temple Myoshinji Jusyo-in in Kyoto to hold zazen and ikebana workshops. The participants experienced a time of just themselves and the flowers in the silence. We will continue to conduct these workshops in the future with the aim of utilizing the feedback and insights gained from this work in new mental health care that utilizes traditional Japanese culture.
Credit
Organizer：Keitaro Senoo（Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine）
Planning：Mucha-Kucha inc.
Zen meditation：Eitetsu Nishida（Jusyo-in）
Ikebana：Ryota Hagiwara
Photo：Kuniyuki Ikarashi
Artist
Ikebana ArtistRyota Hagiwara［ Kaizen ]
In 2016, he started his career as a flower arranger (pen name; Kaisen). He believes that “to arrange flowers is to mourn them”, and while searching for the meaning of this concept, he aspires to create flower arrangements that please the flowers themselves and remain in people’s memories. He has created powerful works full of life force and dynamic live performances at temples, shrines, and other places throughout Japan. While traveling around Japan and abroad, he continues to create works that “make the land happy” by mixing the people, nature, and culture of the land. In 2021, he will open an alternative space in Ryogoku, Tokyo, called “Hanayorozu Kaizen”, where he will collaborate with artists from various genres to create unique works and events. In 2021, he will open an alternative space “Hanayorozu Kaizen” in Ryogoku, Tokyo, where he will continue to pursue his original “flower arrangement” in various ways, including the creation of works and events in collaboration with artists of various genres.