New Year Cerebration Kokedama "Kadomatsu" Workshop at Japanese Garden

2215 Pan American Road East,San Diego CA 92101

27 December, 2021

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Workshop for a New Year Kadomatsu Kokedama! Sake is served!! Traditional Japanese new year Kadomatsu bring happiness to your house! Let's get together and make a wish for coming year 2022 full of happiness and prosperity. Date: 12/27 (Mon) 10:00am~ at Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park $65 for one group (Join with your family and friends/Admission to Japanese garden is not included in the ticket) Fee include all the materials needed to make one Kadomatsu kokedama decoration, instruction from Kokedama artist, and Sake to be cheers!! Kadomatsu is a decoration with three cut pieces of bamboo and pine for the Japanese New Year’s holiday. After Christmas, you will see this decoration at the entrances of houses and buildings in Japan. It is the land mark for the Shinto deity Toshigami-sama, to enter your home. In Japan, it has believed that Toshigami-sama comes to each family to bring happiness on New Year’s day. However, the deity only visits when he is invited. The kadomatsu decorations take on the role of sign at an entrance to welcome the deity. We will have a good time at Japanese garden with family and friends. Bring as many family member or friends to join this event. Looking forward to see you there! Kanako Yamada Kodama means "forest sprits" in Japanese words and this business name was chosen because I wish all my kokedama deliver the peaceful forest spirits to new owner of the kokedama and he or she to share the peaceful world to their family and friends. To expand my dream, I hope my work help to create peaceful earth. I depict kokedama as small earth with little forest plants and I hope everyone enjoy the forest spirits and energy this moss-ball produce. All kokedama is hand made by myself thinking about people's smile, using the best mixture of soil  for each plants' requirement, and they are wrapped with green preserved moss. I will accept custom order, please contact with me if your favorite plants can be transform to Kokeama, the little earth ball. Please email "[email protected]" Kokedama (Ko Kay Da Ma) is unique form of living plant art. These little beauties have quite a history, originally spinning off from a version of the bonsai tradition in Japan in the 1600's. 
It is a ball of soil covered by moss with plants rooted in. 
Typical bonsai usually for outdoor small tree but indoor/outdoor plants can be used with Kokedama form, a variety of flowers, wild flowers, grass and other plants can be arranged to form a desired theme. Because of he small size of the ball the plants will typically remain small with the inside of the ball allowing for growth and development of the plant's root system. Kokedama has known in Japan as casual horticulture arts but it is still not too popular. It is beautiful living art which gives peaceful and calm mind to people.  I would love to contribute my time to keep this Japanese tradition and hopefully become popular plants art so that it will pass on to future children. My wishes with this Kokedama plants are that every owner enjoy and maintain the peaceful mind and energy that this small forest spirit ball produces. Sincerly, Kanako Yamada