Sozan Nakamura, a Rigi of Sogetsu School, a Master Instructor of the Sogetsu Headquarter and an Instructor of Iemoto class at the headquarters in Tokyo and Osaka presented an Ellen Gordon Allen Annual Lecture/Demonstration entitled "Watashi no Hana - You in Ikebana" . He began to study Ikebana under the 2nd Iemoto, Kasumi Teshigahara in 1977 and joined Sogetsu Kobo (Studio) from 1982 till 1994. He conducted a workshop entitled “Table arrangement” following the demonstration and 2 workshops entitled “Focusing on fixing and conditioning, Nageire” and "Mizuhiki" on the following day.