本田野報告敘述為期三週的日本經驗，描述重點在於日本文化和社會環境中的藝術教育。本報告由此根本重點出發，從此經驗中也逐漸開展出架構本報告的主題和模型。這些輔助性主題包含：日本及美濃(Mino)市的生活(設定背景)；手工製和紙文化；和紙祭的特質；手工藝作為教育、學習和生活的方式；學校及慶典中的兒童及其藝術；儀式的重要性。本報告依據當代女性主義互動式(transactive)民族誌研究文獻的建議，採用個人敘述文體。

This is a field report of a three-week experience in Japan, centered on art education in their cultural and social contexts. Beginning with this overarching focus, the themes and patterns that structure this report were emergent, rising from the experience. Those supporting themes are: being in Japan and in Mino city (setting a context); the culture of handmade Washi paper; the qualities of the Washi paper festival; craft as a way of teaching, being and learning; children and their art at school and through the festival, and the importance of ritual. This report is written in a personal narrative style as suggested in contemporary feminist and transactive ethnographic literature.