A Few Things About Me

I am a fully licensed Mishoryu-style Flower Arrangement teacher. My birth name is Bastian, but you may call me Hasuo as it is my Ikebana artist moniker. As is customary in the Mishoryu School, it was given to me by my mistress in the same way she received hers many years ago. I had the pleasure of discovering the characters of my new name carved in the heavy iron handle of my first custom-made Ikebana scissors.

Born in Switzerland in the mid-eighties, I have always been deeply unsatisfied with the turn Western Europe was taking. Modernity, I felt, shouldn’t have to mean the death of tradition but rather an adaption of it to our times.

That is one of the many reasons I left the Old Continent for good. Settling in Japan just made perfect sense. Because nothing in the world even comes close to this Archipelago’s incredibly subtle yet savage culture of shadows and lights.

I also write books in French. You can purchase my first short story at Marseille-based publishing house L’Amour des Maux.

A longer work blending East Asian eroticism, dreams, travels, Ikebana, literature, and the devil is also in preparation. It will come out next year also at L’Amour des Maux.

You can find anything related to my literary activities on my French language author website, abhorrions-flairant.com.