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- 146 -*Mr.Nagatomo taught Japanese Language I~IV and Japanese Culture I~IV.The advanced students took these courses, where they learned current eventsin Japanese newspapers, gave a presentation of the research they were doing,making their study records, and exchanges of their compositions by Internetwith Japanese students or foreign students learning Japanese at otheruniversities in and out of Japan.*The teachers of four Faculties took turns teaching Japanese Culture V~VIII foreach semester, where the lectures on teachers’ specialized fields were given.Among these courses, the tea ceremony class given by Ms.Takei was the uniqueone and popular among the students. (see pp.146~150)*Japanese Language classes for the foreign students’ family・This program started before Mr.Nagatomo came to MU, but after he arrivedin 2003, Global Support Office (GSO) asked him to be a supervisor of thisprogram.・The teachers from outside taught this program with some pay, but after thegraduate school ‘Japanese Language Support’ was established in 2005, somegraduate students were in charge of teaching the classes in this program.・Only the family members of MU foreign students can take the classes inthis program(2) International Exchange through Tea ceremonyby Ms.Shigemi Takei (MU Professor emeritus)To meet the demand to offer a class in typical Japanese Cultureto foreign students, I started teaching the first learning stage of teaceremony ‘Procedure of Bonryaku’ since the academic year of 1992 (Iguess?). I have the tea ceremony name of ‘Sousei’ in the Urasenkeschool. First of all, I got a set of tea ceremony tools in my officesurrounded by an upright piano, other music utensils, a table, a deskand chairs. I prepared the following tools: Furosaki byoubu (foldingscreen before a portable stove), Dennetsu furo (electric stove),Tetsubin (iron kettle), Kensui (a Waste-water bowl), O-bon (tray), Mousen(carpet), Sensu (folding fan), Natsume (tea caddy), Fukusa (silk cloth) (at firstmale students used my silk cloth for women), Chashaku（tea scoop, Chakin(cloth napkin), Kaishi (paper napkin for sweets), and O-maccha chawan (tea