Diverse influences from abroad provide a prime field of cross-cultural research in art education. This book portrays the process of cross-cultural interpretation as a way of making sense of one’s world in relation to those of others. Cross-cultural research in art education is regarded as “a two-way street.” Chapters 1-4 provide information about art teacher training systems of Japan in 1990s, consider the introduction of European modernism into Japanese school art practice in 1920s, trace the influence of American art education literature on the historical development of Japanese art education in more than a century, and describe the story of incorporating contemporary U. S. art in Japanese school art practice in 1990s. Chapters 5-12 discuss obvious examples what Japanese art educators have learned from Europeans and Americans and provide detailed instances of what American art educators have learned from the Japanese. The cases of Akira Shirahama (1866-1927), Kanae Yamamoto (1882-1946), Seishi Shimoda (1890-1973), Arthur Dow (1857-1922), and Kenneth Beittel (1922-2003) are interesting because they illustrate the gap between what was learned from others and what was realized in modernist art education. A pilgrimage to others makes the living journeying itself that which is invaluable. Surely, “a two-way street” was needed between the American and Japanese art education to enrich each of us achieve cross-cultural understanding in art education. Without diverse influences, no country has its inherent cultural values as pearls in an oyster. Thus the two-way street between cultures in art and art education will be wide open.

アレクサンドル・デュマは本書『ライン川の愛の冒険』（原題は『愛の冒険』）を1859年10月から1860年1月にかけて、『モンテ・クリスト』紙に連載した。1857年8月末にハンガリー系オーストリア人の舞台女優リラ・フォン・ブリュオフスキーがデュマを訪問、その後彼女とベルギーからライン川旅行をする途中で、女性と友情を交わすというドン・ファンのデュマにとっては至難の苦行を堪える顛末を、いつものように虚々実々面白おかしく語るのである。その中にはかつてイタリアで一緒に旅をした歌姫との恋をベッドで寝物語のように語るという回想録とも旅行記を兼ねた二重の入れ子構造になっている。さて、この歌姫とはいったいだれであろうか、それが本書の解題の種明かしの楽しみである。 Une facette méconnue du grand Alexandre Dumas : humour, voyage et confidences amoureuses au fil du Rhin. Si le monde entier connaît l'auteur des Trois Mousquetaires et du Comte de Monte-Cristopour ses romans de cape et d'épée, Une aventure d'amour (publié initialement dans son journal Le Monte-Cristo entre 1859 et 1860) dévoile un Dumas plus intime, spirituel et délicieusement ironique. 【Résumé】 Tout commence en 1857, lorsque la jeune actrice austro-hongroise Lilla von Bulyovsky rend visite à l'écrivain. S'ensuit un voyage à travers la Belgique et le long du Rhin. Mais pour un séducteur impénitent comme Dumas, le plus grand défi de ce périple s'avère être une épreuve de force quasi herculéenne : maintenir une relation de pure amitié avec sa charmante compagne. Au fil de l'eau, pour tromper l'attente, l'auteur se livre à des confidences et raconte, comme une confidence sur l'oreiller, ses amours passées en Italie avec une mystérieuse cantatrice. Mêlant habilement le récit de voyage et les mémoires amoureux dans une structure en abyme captivante, cette œuvre balance constamment entre réalité et fiction. Qui est donc cette célèbre cantatrice ? C'est tout le plaisir de la clé de voûte de ce récit que le lecteur est invité à découvrir. Une redécouverte indispensable pour tous les amoureux de la littérature française du XIXe siècle. A hidden gem by the master Alexandre Dumas: A witty blend of travelogue, romance, and literary mystery along the Rhine. Alexandre Dumas, the legendary creator of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, showcases his exceptional wit and humor in this lesser-known masterpiece, <i>Une aventure d'amour</i> (originally serialized in his journal Le Monte-Cristo from 1859 to 1860). 【About the Book】 The story begins in August 1857, when Lilla von Bulyovsky, a Hungarian-Austrian stage actress, visits Dumas. This encounter leads to a journey together through Belgium and along the scenic Rhine. However, for a notorious Don Juan like Dumas, this trip presents an excruciatingly difficult penance: maintaining a strictly platonic friendship with a beautiful woman. To endure this trial, Dumas weaves a captivating tale within a tale, recounting his past passionate romance in Italy with a certain opera diva, shared like an intimate bedtime story. Blending travelogue and memoir into a brilliant double-layered narrative, Dumas masterfully blurs the lines between truth and fiction. But who is this mysterious diva? Unraveling her identity is part of the delightful literary puzzle waiting to be solved in the commentary of this edition. A sophisticated and entertaining read for fans of classical literature, 19th-century European romance, and those wishing to discover a delightfully human side of a literary giant.