Subject: Flower arrangers--Japan - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Japanese flower arranger Yuriko Go, under her pseudonym Akemi Togo, giving a demonstration on the Japanese art of flower arrangement at the Social Arts League in Los Angeles. Miss Go previously attended USC for two years before going back to Tokyo in order to study the decorative arrangement of flowers in the Moribana style of the Ohara school. Her trip was sanctioned by foreign offices of Japan and the United States and was considered a goodwill mission to American women. She was referred to as "flower ambassador from Japan" and a "good will ambassador." She also published a book under this pseudonym, "Japanese Touch to American Bouquet" in 1935.
Date:: Aug. 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection