Who Was the First Person to Give Flowers?
We wonder how they felt. We wonder where they were. As we wander through mountains or gather blooms from gardens, we imagine it must have been a single wildflower. Perhaps with a nibble from an insect, perhaps a petal missing, perhaps a little crooked.
How did the person who received it feel? Surely, they were delighted by its beauty.
Yet flowers do not bloom to please us. We are the ones who decide they are beautiful, who choose to find meaning in them.
If that’s the case, we want to feel flowers freely, to give them as if we were the first person to do so. And if we could live like a flower, captivating even as we wither, how beautiful that would be.
With that thought, today and tomorrow, we meet flowers again.
At OUKA Flower, with a vision of crafting unseen landscapes through dried flowers, we dream of a world where, like the first person to ever give a flower, we uncover the hidden beauty in every bloom. By transforming that beauty into new value, we strive to create a world where dried flowers, people, and all things live in closer harmony.
At OUKA Flower, with a vision of crafting unseen landscapes through dried flowers, we dream of a world where, like the first person to ever give a flower, we uncover the hidden beauty in every bloom. By transforming that beauty into new value, we strive to create a world where dried flowers, people, and all things live in closer harmony.
At OUKA Flower, with a vision of crafting unseen landscapes through dried flowers, we dream of a world where, like the first person to ever give a flower, we uncover the hidden beauty in every bloom. By transforming that beauty into new value, we strive to create a world where dried flowers, people, and all things live in closer harmony.
At OUKA Flower, with a vision of crafting unseen landscapes through dried flowers, we dream of a world where, like the first person to ever give a flower, we uncover the hidden beauty in every bloom. By transforming that beauty into new value, we strive to create a world where dried flowers, people, and all things live in closer harmony.
Akuta is centered around the themes of repurposing and rescuing items that can no longer be kept as cherished memories or are destined for disposal.
At the “Fukagawa Gatharia Xmas Illumination 2018,” we created a giant herbarium representing Japan’s four seasons.
We remodeled a traditional Japanese room into an office space, with with dried flowers and denim scrolls.
The floral design for Yoh Kamiyama’s new song “Endroll” music video. The song is featured as the ending theme for the anime BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Separation.
At OUKA Flower, with a vision of crafting unseen landscapes through dried flowers, we dream of a world where, like the first person to ever give a flower, we uncover the hidden beauty in every bloom. By transforming that beauty into new value, we strive to create a world where dried flowers, people, and all things live in closer harmony.
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Like the first person in human history to give a flower, we meet flowers once again today.