Akane Teshigahara first learned of the spirit and techniques of the Sogetsu School from her aunt, Kasumi Teshigahara. Akane is the fourth generation headmaster of the Sogetsu School. She succeeded her father, Hiroshi Teshigahara, on May 14, 2001. Under her directorship the goal of the Sogetsu School remains dedicated to fostering the creative spirit of ikebana in all possible ways.

Most recently Akane produced "Sogetsu Flower Avenue" on Omotesando, one of Tokyo's busiest streets. Akane wanted Young Sogetsu Leaders to have the freedom to create freely on a large scale and she wanted people who were not usually part of the ikebana world to experience Sogetsu as part of their daily lives.

She has founded "Akane Junior Class" so that childhood sensitivity to both the internal and external world can be used and developed through creating ikebana.

Akane is very active in space design. There she can create a new world; her own world, but one that is intensely present in reality and reacts to everything around it. She says that the same containers and flower materials change with time and space, light, and other circumstances around them. They represent a personal vision yet they are present now and here. She is committed to finding her own originality, her own 'flowers' and placing them in the world.