石草流いけばな（ せきそうりゅういけばな ）は、ホテルオークラ東京創業以来、その玄関やロビーなど全館に生花を施し、世界の国賓をお迎えして参りました。「石」 は永遠に姿を変えず、 「草」 は時々刻々と姿を変える、その陰陽の対照と調和に、山野の貴い美しさを写しとる事を趣旨とします。生きる芸術として花をいける全過程をお見せしており、多くのお客様に愛されて参りました。現在はアマン東京などご要望により多くの場所を飾らせて頂いております。

Ever since Hotel Okura Tokyo opened in 1962, we’ve been offering Japanese traditional beauty and hospitality through flowers to illustrious visitors from all over the world. Sekiso means Stone and Plant Style in direct translation. Stone represents permanence and Plant embodies fragility. We seek to express beauty of changing seasons with highlighting contrast and harmony of those two. We demonstrate the whole process of arrangement as a part of our art. And the guests of Okura kindly call it living art and have appreciated it. Now we decorate Aman Tokyo and other venues as we are requested.

このページでは「万葉の花 flower story」と題して、毎月、万葉集に記された植物をとりあげ、万葉人はこれらをどう観察し、また、生活・文化・死生観・男女の恋愛や家族の絆など、にいかに結びつけていたかを読み解いて参ります。

On "flower story" webpage, we pick a simbolic flower of the month and introduce how it appears in an ancient anthology of Japanese poems, 'Manyo shu' (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves). It could tell our unique way of appreciation of flowers throughout 1400 years of history. As Kakuzo Okakura said in The Book Of Tea, ”In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them.”

(stories in Japanese only)