These were superb. So Japanese.

Phenomenally good!

Love that the artist leveraged the existing [extant] structure of the leaf to build the end results.

There are some beautiful lessons about design and

leaning in to what-is-already-there while going for the outcomes you want.

This qualifies as one of those "make relatively mundane thing more exotic and interesting to Western audiences by slapping Japanese in front of it" posts, even though this is all done by a single individual artist who just happens to be Japanese, and not a particularly Japanese tradition.