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*''Japanese'': 池坊 ''(ikenobou)''

Ikenobô is the largest and oldest school of ''[[ikebana]]'' still in operation today. It traces its origins to [[Ikenobo Senko|Ikenobô Senkô]] in the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]]. As early as 1817, the school is said to have had as many as 20,000 students across the realm; in that year, over 1200 students exhibited at an event in celebration of the retirement of the school's ''[[iemoto]]'' (grandmaster).

The school (and its founder) may take its name from the "monks' quarters by the pond" (''ike no bô'') at [[Rokkakudo|Rokkakudô]], a temple in Kyoto that claims to be the site of the origin of the art of ''ikebana'' itself, and which remains a major center of Ikenobô activity today.<ref>Plaques on-site at Rokkakudô.</ref>

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==References==
*[[Eiko Ikegami]], ''Bonds of Civility'', Cambridge University Press (2005), 165-166.
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