108年日本高知高專短期研修-建築系 黃同學

活動名稱：姊妹校交流

國外研習學校/科系：日本高知高專/環境都市設計工學科

People in Kochi  

by Huang, Yu Hua

This was my first time to Sikoku, and it also my first trip in oversea only by myself. In this forty days trip, I met many people.

Okada sensei

Okada sensei was the first teacher who I knew in kochi.

Okada sensei was very kind, although he had a serious face.

I joined his class that about disaster prevention and community, The class was talk about how to make people have crisis sense to prevention and how to give people prevention information efficiently.  This was my first time learning about this.  After this, Taiwan also have many prevention, I think school in Taiwan should pay more attention on this.

Kitayama sensei

Kitayama sensei was my advisor. She was energetic and pretty. She taught me architecture history and traditional Japanese architecture. Every weekends she drove car to bring me and some students to many shrines which were related to ekin the paintings by painter named Kinzou in edo period. When the first time I see ekin, I thought the red of ekin was very beautiful but horrible. I very enjoyed these trips. We had been to a small shrine in the mountain which couldn’t found in google map and there was even unknown by some residents who lived around here. In the one of day we went to kahaku shrine, the god of this shrine is kahaku, who love cucumber and sumo. In this festival, shrine hold a competition for children, it was very cute and interesting. No matter boys or girls, all of them can join. Winner laughed and some of loser cried, but all of they can earn toys.

One of the most important place for ekin is Akaoka. In Akaoka, there were more than ten ekines displayed in ekin festival which was hold at night.  To record the festival, I helped teacher taking photos. It was not easy to take these at night, To protect ekines and make street have old style, there were not use any lamp on the street, only had candles. Akaoka is also an old town.  This town is in the countryside so as now it still have many traditional houses. But there wasn’t have many job in the town so many people had left here. To protect traditional house and make people want to come Akaoka, Kitayama sensei hold a workshop in here every month. I joined it. In this workshop, there was a madam taught me how to cook soumen the Japanese noodle meal, and this is first time I cook in the old style kitchen that didn’t have gas. The other thing I did in the workshop is clean up house tools which used in edo period. I only can see it in the museum in usual, but this time I touched it and saw it very close. It was really a special experience. 

Kitayama sensei aked me to have a class about Taiwanese architecture for third grade students. To prepare the class we talked many things about history, culture and architecture. I think in these 30 days I not only learned Japanese architecture but also realized Taiwan more.

My friends

We had parties in dormitory and we talked about Japanese comic, actor and everything young people love. And we also talked about hometown, they let me knew many places in kochi and how beautiful the kochi ‘s sea is.

Some students also had trips in kochi city with me. Actually, most of places they hadn’t been before.  A girl she was a fifth grade student, she will work in chiba next year. She told me after she been these place with me, she felt kochi was a good place and started loving this place. I felt very happy.