Film director, flower arrangement master Teshigahara dies

[Dr Alexander Soifer]

Sad to lose this man...
For me he belonged to the world, not just Japan,
an intellectual, aesthete, philosopher,
gentle kind sage...

Alexander Soifer

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Brown <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
To: <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 5:47 PM
Subject: Film director, flower arrangement master Teshigahara dies


> Sunday, April 15, 2001 at 20:00 JST
> TOKYO &#8212; Film director and "Iemoto" grand master of the Sogetsu
school
> of flower arrangement Hiroshi Teshigahara died Saturday of acute
> lymphocytic leukemia at a Tokyo hospital, his family said Sunday. He was
> 74.
>
> Teshigahara, son of Sofu Teshigawara, founder and grand master of the
> Sogetsu "ikebana" (flower arrangement) school, began his career as a film
> director in 1953 and established his own production company in 1964. That
> same year, one of his films, "Suna-no-Onna" (The Woman in the Dunes), won
> Special Judge's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as other awards
> in film festivals in Japan and elsewhere. (Kyodo News)
>
>
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