In a ceremony on the Tokyo Bay port, Ikenobo ikebana Headmaster Designate Senko Ikenobo formally welcomed the most recent Mitsui Ocean Cruises ship, by naming her Mitsui Ocean Fuji.
The commemorative occasion came about onboard Mitsui Ocean Fuji within the Ocean Stage theater and Senko Ikenobo, alongside CEO and President Tsunemichi Mukai and Captain Kim Karlsson, warmly wished the ship “truthful winds and following seas” for a journey crusing to distinctive and exquisite locations in Japan and past.
To culminate the celebration, she launched a bottle of sake that shattered towards the ship, wishing success to all friends and crew crusing onboard, based on a press launch.
Sister ship, Nippon Maru, was additionally in port to greet Mitsui Ocean Fuji, and friends onboard each ships waved flags, because the ships festively exchanged three horn salutes, symbolizing the “Mitsui” (three bars) motif within the cruise line’s model mark.
Takeshi Hashimoto, Consultant Director, President, Chief Government Officer of Mitsui O.S.Ok. Traces, and several other different stakeholders have been additionally on the naming ceremony to have a good time the debut of Mitsui Ocean Fuji.
Mukai, CEO and President of Mitsui Ocean Cruises, remarked: “Senko Ikenobo is extremely admired for her dedication and keenness for meticulous ikebana artistry in Japan, making her the proper alternative to call Mitsui Ocean Fuji. Together with her effectively needs for a affluent life and joyful and sustainable future, friends will get pleasure from lovely encounters with Japan and an authentically and thoroughly crafted cruise expertise mixing our distinct Japanese tradition with inspiring and distinctive methods to worth time and area.”
Senko Ikenobo is the primary lady appointed as Headmaster Designate of the Ikenobo Faculty, acknowledged because the oldest and most influential college of ikebana, the time-honored Japanese artwork of flower arranging. The Ikenobo custom of ikebana emphasizes a philosophy of making concord between people and nature and cultivating mindfulness. On this present day, the stage was embellished with an ikebana created by Senshu Ikenobo, the top of the Ikenobo Youth Membership (and the son of Senko Ikenobo). The ikebana expresses the great thing about nature, in addition to the promise of deepening the connection and belief between Mitsui Ocean Cruises and the individuals dwelling within the communities Mitsui Ocean Fuji will go to. The ikebana added to the great thing about Japan of Mitsui Ocean Fuji’s memorable ceremony, which provides “FUNATABI – Lovely Encounters with Japan.”
Caption: From left: Ikenobo ikebana Headmaster Designate Senko Ikenobo poses with Mitsui Ocean Cruises President and CEO Tsunemichi Mukai and Captain Kim Karlsson to have a good time the official naming of the Mitsui Ocean Fuji.
