Now, the winner of the Internet Exhibition Contest for School Students are came out.
This time 5,854 students from all over the world enrolled wonderful works for the exhibition.
✿The First Place✿
Ms. Haruka Morohoshi, Second year at Ikenobo Junior College
Theme: Me in the present and the future
Style: Shoka
Floral Material: Fatsia japonica, Iris japonica, prairie gentian
Comment from Ms. Morohoshi:
I arranged a Shoka shimputai work as the compilation of my college life. I tried to present warm and supportive hands of my family and friends as leaves of Fatsia japonica, and my growth on Iris japonica and my hope for future on the flower of prairie gentian. I am now moving toward a new stage of my life, and a bud of prairie gentian represent that it is now my turn to support my surroundings.
✿The Second Place✿
Ms. Non Miyahara, Second year at Ikenobo Junior College
Theme: Me in the present and the future
Style: Shoka
Floral Material: prairie gentian, Oriental bittersweet, Monstera
Comment from Ms. Miyahara:
Oriental bittersweet represent my anxiety and emotional conflict under challenging situation now, and I used a plant with straight line on the center of my work to show the hope for the future and my ambition. Like a Monstera leaf on the work, I was always supported my family and friends, they made me who I am today. As it said in the flower word of prairie gentian, I believe for the bright future and always do my best.
✿The Third Place✿
Mr. Hideki Kosugi, Second year at Ikenobo Junior College
Theme: cold wind
Style: Shoka
Floral Material: aspidistra, red willow, prairie gentian
Comment from Mr. Kosugi
I arranged a shoka shimputai work under theme of “cold wind” of the late autumn and early winter. Aspidistra leaves seems hit by a cold wind and withered, but they still alive. I tried to express their toughness. Express wind by using line of red willow branches, and winter to come on its white buds. A flower of prairie gentian gave me an image that they survive harsh condition and live to the fullest.
