Based on a corpus of Japanese children's literature featuring Japanese visual arts, a study in intercultural mediation in adult education on image reading was conducted. Aimed at written productions developed in students’ notebooks based on images, and making subjective, psycho-affective, interpretive, and cultural markers based on feelings and possible links to one's own literary culture, the study highlighted a subjective reading process. Using a typology of intercultural approaches, referred to as cross-cultural and plural, and a qualitative methodology, the purpose of this study is to understand, as reflection, the creation of cultural identity.