# @apnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdlB3CCnH6j
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T05:53:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Associated Press (@AP) — https://gondola.cc/AP

## Caption

Ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging flowers, is a form of expression that dates back more than 500 years.

It's a bit like solving a puzzle, except there’s no fixed answer; because each flower and each human is different, there can be multiple solutions.

“There’s a ‘detox’ purifying factor, and a healing,” says Hiroyuki Okada, who began taking lessons in ikebana about seven years ago. 

He now teaches Ikenobo, the oldest of three major ikebana schools.

One traditional Ikenobo arrangement is shoka shofutai, which attempts to arrange the flowers, leaves and branches as they might look in nature, reaching toward sunlight or bending in the wind.

More at the link in bio.
#APPhotos by Yuri Kageyama and by Hiroyuki Okada via AP.

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