"Surrounded by flowers that have shown metheir infinite aspects 
in the morning,  in the evening and throughout the four  seasons, 
playing and growing in constantdialogue with them, I enjoy even today  
the happiness of being able to live among the flowers".

Guglielmo Doryu Cappelli and Annamaria Gyoetsu Epifanìa of the 
Anshin Zen Center - Peace of the Heart - in Rome will present 
the volume, translated into Italian by the publisher Casadei, 
on the "Way of the Flowers" by the Teacher Aoyama Shundo. 

SHUNDO AOYAMA. She was born in 1933 in Ichimiya in Aichi prefecture. 
At the age of five, she enters the Muryōji temple of the Sōtō school 
which is located in Shiojiri in Nagano prefecture. At fifteen she was 
ordained a nun and entered Aichi Senmon Nisōdō. After earning her PhD 
from Komazawa University, she becomes head of Aichi Senmon Nisōdō, 
Shōbōji temple and Muryōji temple. She is the author of numerous 
writings and speaker at conferences and symposiums. In particular, 
by teaching the Way of Tea (sadō) and the Way of Flowers (kadō), 
you contribute to the dissemination of Zen concepts that are also 
understandable to the general public. She has a wide and intense 
activity also outside Japan, participating in the activities 
of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in India and carrying out monastic 
life in Catholic monasteries in her visits to Europe. 
Her works are translated into various languages, attracting a wide echo 
both in Europe and in the United States.