Master instructor shows art of flower arranging

Japan and Hungary are celebrating 150 years of bilateral relations in 2019, and celebrations began with a demonstration and lecture on ikebana by Ms Koka Fukushima at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest on February 14. Ikebana is the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement, which dates back centuries and uses not only flowers but branches, stems and leaves as its material. The evening was hosted by the Embassy of Japan in Hungary.