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Yoshiko Mitchell’s flower arrangements are beautiful to behold, but there’s more to them than meets the eye. Mitchell practices , the centuriesold Japanese art of flower arranging, and teaches the technique twice a month to floral enthusiasts at a church in Creve Coeur. Mitchell says Buddhist priests in Kyoto, Japan, began teaching to their students as translates to “living flowers,” and though practitioners strive to create aesthetically pleasing arrangements, beauty is not the technique’s only purpose. We talked with Mitchell about her relationship to , how it connects her to nature, and why the process reminds her to live in the moment.
