{"id":249,"date":"2025-08-28T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suminumi.com\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:53:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/suminumi.com\/de\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi, I\u2019m Sumi \u2014 a Japanese artist and workshop host based in Berlin<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ich bin in Japan geboren und aufgewachsen, habe in den USA studiert und gearbeitet und lebe nun seit \u00fcber zehn Jahren in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n

Im Jahr 2020, nach vielen Jahren im Marketing, versp\u00fcrte ich das Bed\u00fcrfnis, mit den H\u00e4nden zu arbeiten \u2013 besonders als die Pandemie pl\u00f6tzlich all meine Projekte stoppte.\nSo begann meine Reise mit Ikebana<\/strong> (Japanese flower arranging) and shod\u014d<\/strong> (Japanese calligraphy) began.<\/p>\n\n

W\u00e4hrend ich die Traditionen meiner Familie in Japan erforschte, wurde mir klar, dass diese K\u00fcnste mir zwar vertraut, aber nie ganz bewusst waren. Ich war damit aufgewachsen, sie hatten mich umgeben, doch sie waren in Vergessenheit geraten. Die Wiederentdeckung von Ikebana und Shod\u014d f\u00fchlte sich an, als w\u00fcrde ich einen Teil von mir selbst wiederfinden.<\/p>\n\n

Seitdem praktiziere ich regelm\u00e4\u00dfig, wann immer ich Zeit finde.\nIm Ikebana habe ich zun\u00e4chst bei einer Ikenob\u014d-Lehrerin studiert und lerne nun innerhalb der Sogetsu-Schule the Sogetsu school<\/a>\u3000weiter.\nIm Shod\u014d habe ich bei Nihon Shuji Nihon Shuji<\/a> die Stufe 4 (\u6e96\u56db\u6bb5) erreicht und arbeite weiter an der vollen Zertifizierung in beiden Disziplinen.<\/p>\n\n

Auf diesem Weg habe ich viele Menschen kennengelernt, die \u2013 wie ich \u2013 von diesen K\u00fcnsten angezogen werden: auf der Suche nach einem Weg, langsamer zu werden, Sch\u00f6nheit zu finden oder auszudr\u00fccken, was der Alltag nicht immer zul\u00e4sst.\nF\u00fcr mich ist Ikebana eine M\u00f6glichkeit, Sch\u00f6nheit auf meine eigene Weise zu interpretieren, w\u00e4hrend Shod\u014d oft zu einem stillen R\u00fcckzugsort wird.<\/p>\n\n

Jetzt habe ich beschlossen, hier in Berlin einen Ort zu schaffen, an dem andere diese Traditionen erleben k\u00f6nnen \u2013 nicht als ferne Rituale, sondern als lebendige Praktiken, die zu Sch\u00f6nheit, Ausdruck und innerer Ruhe f\u00fchren.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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