Open the Door of the Past, Obtain the Key to the Future

In my life with flowers, I’ve handled thousands of flower arrangements, bouquets, and other works over the years. The kinds of flowers I’ve used, too, probably number a fair few.

While organizing the many works preserved in photos and data, something suddenly struck me.

“There are few roses among the flowers I use.”

Why is that? Even though the rose is the most popular of flowers, loved by so many, and even called the queen of flowers.

Since I hadn’t even been conscious of it myself, I don’t really understand it, but the question lingers: was it simply a flower that didn’t much spark my interest, or was it because it’s a painful flower with thorns?

Perhaps because it was a flower so many flower designers had used in their works, and because the long-standing notion that since ancient times the rose has been called a symbol of wealth and power bothered me, I may have felt some resistance. But that’s by no means the rose’s fault, so from now on I thought I’d take on making many works using roses, and aim for a “rosy life.”