ABSTRACT
Nitobe Memorial Garden at The University of British Columbia is perhaps one of the most authentic Japanese Gardens outside of Japan. Visitors, students, staff, and faculty members come to this garden to experience its tranquility nestled within a campus often bustling with energy. Reflecting on Ted T. Aoki's scholarship is of great interest to the author's PhD study group and it coincides with a moment of revisiting her own scholarship. As Aoki's ideas were lingering alongside the author's own, others with whom he worked closely, like William Pinar, also became important and influenced her work in very profound ways. Scholars upon scholars have taken up Aoki's work. Each of the editors has studied Aoki through graduate school readings and particularly through the lenses of William Pinar who dedicated a course to the work of Aoki.
