DDA Award for Display Design Achievement
	The floral decorative work entitled “Illusion ∼ A Fantastic Forest Where Butterflies Dance” was displayed at the 34th trade show for the hotel and restaurant industry called HOTERES JAPAN 2006, which took place at the Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center) on March 14-17, 2006. Created in a collaboration of our techniques for large-scale 3D shaping that we had developed for Seika Saidan and an interior design studio, it proposed a spatial display using flowers.

Description
This work visualizes a fantastic world with two butterflies that are about to gently take off, a deformed tree and a fragrant heart symbol made of deep red roses. This dreamy forest had tables and chairs installed so that viewers could get close to it.

Technical Features
- This work was created in a unique manner of forming an outline by placing flowers with stalk length ranging from 30 to 60 centimeters on the floral foam.
- Flowers were placed on both sides of the butterfly’s wings. It was technically challenging to keep the wing thickness at around 20 centimeters.
In addition, novel ideas were introduced to the details. For instance, the tip of each stalk was cut off to ensure that the stalks of the flowers on both sides were densely crossed inside the floral foam.
For a single butterfly display, 1000 roses and 1200 spraymums were used.
- The outline of the heart symbol was created in the same way as the butterflies. But the heart was made in a three-dimensional form like a half-cut apple by gradually increasing the thickness in the part closer to the center. This heart alone involved 3000 roses.
See this panoramic view of the floral creation to examine the details.


Merit Award and the Mayor of Hamamatsu Award won in the Pacific Flora 2004 international gardening exhibition

This work won a merit award and the Mayor of Hamamatsu Award in the Pacific Flora 2004 exhibition, which was held from April 8, 2004 to October 11, 2004 and attracted 5.4 million visitors. 
 
Description
This work uses as its motif the famous woodblock print (called ukiyo-e) entitled Great Wave off Kanagawa in the 36 Views of Mount Fuji produced by Katsushika Hokusai, an ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in the Edo period. 
Hokusai is best known for this series of the 36 Views of Mount Fuji, a collection of 46 woodblock prints, consisting of 36 primary prints and 10 supplementary ones, featuring the highest mountain in Japan, Mount Fuji.
Among others, "the Great Wave off Kanagawa" is said to have had great influence on overseas artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, who demonstrated his great admiration for it in a letter. Claude Debussy composed his symphonic sketches for orchestra entitled La Mer in a room that he decorated with this Japanese woodblock print.

Technical Features
Only two types of flowers, namely 1500 spraymums and 1500 small chrysanthemums, were used to create this work. Waves, splashes of water and the lingering snow on Mount Fuji were expressed solely with white flowers. Gradations were produced by varying the orientation of flowers and the size of the buds.

Recreating the motif of the famous woodblock print depicting Mount Fuji seen beyond the stormy sea waves involved the unprecedented challenge of producing a three-dimensional flower display with an unusually deep space.

To add a perspective feel to the artwork, ideas were adopted to design the platform so that it had 3D depth. The mountain was deliberately represented with a rather flat look to accentuate the three-dimensional feel of the overall display. The wave motif realistically portrayed by Hokusai was audaciously changed into a fist-like shape. It symbolizes the dynamic power of the waves in a simple manner.