A Personal, Cultural Perspective on the Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of NC State University Gallery of Art and Design Exhibited in the Barton Museum
Ó 2002, J. Chris Wilson, Professor of Art
Aichi Shukutoku University is a sister institution of Barton College and the two institutions encourage exchanges.
I was provided with very comfortable accommodations in the University’s International House. My wife Kathy and our then 2-½ year old daughter Singleton accompanied me.
It was a wonderful experience for us. I taught western art appreciation and western art and literature at the University.
We were able to travel most weekends and visited many sites, primarily in central Honshu, the largest of the four principal islands.
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We were fully immersed in the culture. Weeks often passed between contacts with Westerners. We lived in a suburban neighborhood near enough to the University that I could walk home if I missed the last bus. Very few Japanese speak English, although all young Japanese have studied English in school for written university entrance exams. I had taken two semesters of Japanese language at Barton College from Shizuyo Saito, a visiting professor from Tokyo, in the 1993-1994 school year.
