I used the large leaf of Japanese aralia this week with some flowers that has the fall tints.

Japanese aralia is called ‘ Yatsude‘ in Japanese which literally means 8 hands as it looks like a hand with 8 fingers.

I realized that the colors of each flower gets darker little by little as autumn is in the air. In my opinion, one of the great things to keep creating ikebana works is to recognize this kind of minor change in the daily life.