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PHOTO: 1,500 kick off new year with flower arranging ceremony

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

2013/01/08

Students clad in kimono arrange flowers in a ceremony held by the Ikenobo school of ikebana teaching as Yuki Ikenobo, right, who is expected to become the next headmaster, gives tips at the school's main training hall in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Jan. 5. (Kazunori Takahashi)Students in kimono arrange flowers in a ceremony held by the Ikenobo school of ikebana teaching in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Jan. 5. (Kazunori Takahashi)Students in kimono arrange flowers in a ceremony held by the Ikenobo school of ikebana teaching in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward on Jan. 5. (Kazunori Takahashi)

KYOTO -- About 1,500 women and men clad in kimono arranged flowers in the traditional Japanese art form in a ceremony marking the new year held by the Ikenobo school of ikebana teaching on Jan. 5.