The Blaine County Journal News-Opinion - We've Got The County Covered

The Japanese art of flower arranging, Ikebana, continues to bloom in Chinook and northeast Montana where Ikebana has been practiced for 60 years.

Allie Marie Uyehara who is originally from Chinook, brought the art back from Japan in the 1950s, sharing with the local garden club the lessons she’d learned at the famed Sogetsu School of Ikebana. Ikebana International Chapter No.8 began in Chinook in 1957, and remains the only club of its kind in Montana today.

Its principles are that of Sogetsu: anyone can arrange flowers, flower arrangements can be displayed anywhere, and anything may be us...