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Khokana, the vernacular village and its mustard-oil seed industrial heritage, Survey Report
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Investigation Based on 3D Measurement on the Restoration History of the Buddhaʼs Name Stela of Priest Ippen at Banze, Shingu City
Get PDFThree-D measurement was carried out on a damaged stela left near the Buddhaʼs Name Stela of Priest Ippen, designated as a historic site of Wakayama Prefecture, and an igneous block hollowed artificiallywhich is located ca. 600 m east from the stela, based on the technique of multi-view stereo. Miniature models of both the damaged stela and the block were printed out by a 3D printer as a size of one sixth in order to inspect their joining state. As a result, it was confirmed that the damaged stela just meets the block perfectly and cannot be easilyremoved after once put in. This result leads to the conclusion that the damaged stela is equivalent to the “cursive script stela of Priest Ippen” which was restored in A.D. 1760, and the block was hollowed for that restoration. Thus, the damaged stela and the block have historic value equal to the “semi-cursive script stela of Priest Ippen,” which has alreadybeen designated as a historic site of Wakayama Prefecture, and are required to be conserved appropriately.journal articl
Investigation Report on Techniques for Preserving Cultural Properties with Focus on Musical Instruments 3
Get PDFThe Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage considers the manufacture of musical instruments, techniques for their repair, the manufacture of tools necessary for the production of the instruments and repair techniques, as well as the manufacture of materials necessary for these as important restoration techniques to support the traditional performing arts of Japan and has been conducting investigation since 2017. The present report is a sequel to “Investigation Report on Techniques for Preserving Cultural Properties with Focus on Musical Instruments 1” and provides an outline of 13 cases of investigation conducted from April to October 2019. Of these those that have not been investigated sufficiently up to this point are listed as topics.
Japan, according to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties has a system by which preservation techniques are selected and holders and holding groups of these techniques are recognized. However, in this investigation, investigation has been done on the holders and holding groups that are considered important regardless of selection or recognition. The content of investigation are arranged into the following 7 items and categorized according to instruments for ordering of information: (1)Name of the holder, (2)Date of birth, (3)Address or place of investigation, (4)Date of investigation, (5)Investigator, (6)Outline of the holder of technique, (7)Observation of the investigator.
Cases requested by the First Cultural Division of the Department of Cultural Properties, Agency for Cultural Affairs are included in this report and information is shared with the Agency upon agreement from the interviewee. In addition, “4. Investigation in Korea” presents a part of the overseas research interchange that the Department conducts with the National Intangible Cultural Center of the Republic of Korea. It is published in Japanese and Korean after obtaining agreement from the interviewee.departmental bulletin pape
Evaluation of Sutra Mounds as Material Storage Facilities: From the Viewpoint of Conservation Science
Get PDFSutra mounds, called kyozuka in Japanese, have been created since the 11th century in Japan. It is confirmed that some initial sutra mounds were established by burying Buddhist scriptures in the ground in order to keep them for 5,670,000,000 years. It would be effective to evaluate the present condition of the remains and excavated relics of sutra mounds from the viewpoint of conservation science for considering the long-term conservation of materials in the future. In the 12th century, there were people who considered the way of conserving Buddhist scriptures by inspecting the conditions of materials buried in the past. That way of thinking in the 12th century is almost the same as the present methods of conservation science. Observation of materials passed down to the present leads to the conclusion that materials kept continuously on the ground with appropriate management and maintenance are preserved generally better than the materials continuously buried underground. It is also revealed, however, that when management and maintenance are not continued, e.g. due to natural and / or human-induced disasters, damages and dissipation may be reduced by burial. Because sutra mounds are the evidence that people in the past tried to keep materials for long-term management plan, it is also required for us to take over the remains and excavated relics concerning sutra mounds appropriately to the next generation.journal articl
Study on the Deterioration of the Wall Paintings in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: Investigation with Phase Diagrams of the Influence of Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Conditions on Salt Precipitation
Get PDFHagia Sophia in Istanbul has been suffering from severe degradation of the wall paintings such as exfoliation of wall paintings and inner finishing materials due to salt crystallization within the wall. In the present study, the influence of the inside and outside environmental conditions on the precipitation and disappearance of sodium sulfate and sodium nitratine was examined using phase diagrams. The result of comparison between the inside temperature and humidity and phase diagrams shows that sodium nitratine is prone to repeat precipitation and deliquescence and tends to precipitate from fall to winter. Numerical analysis of heat and moisture transfer was also conducted to investigate the influence of the outside environmental condition on the spatial distribution of temperature and humidity in the wall and the resulting salt precipitation behavior. It was found that sodium sulfate is likely to cause subefflorescence which may lead to the exfoliation of the inner finishing materials and that sodium nitratine is difficult to precipitate at locations where relative humidity becomes higher due to concentration of infiltration of rainwater.journal articl
Characteristics of Articles about Ise-daikagura Written in Local Reports of Shiga Prefecture
Get PDFThe present paper aims to make a database of the articles written about Ise-daikagura (traveling lion dance troupe) in local reports of Shiga prefecture and to analyze the characteristics of those articles.
Ise-daikagura is a traveling performing troupe that plays shishimai (lion dance) and hokagei (acrobatics) in rituals for purifying the deities of houses in west Japan. Performers of Ise-daikagra have kept earning their living out of the ritual performances.
There are five official groups of Ise-daikagura and all of these groups start their annual schedule of traveling from Shiga prefecture in January. Many people of Shiga have welcomed the performers and have formed a close relationship with them. For this reason, there are a considerable number of articles about Ise-daikagura on local reports published by municipal organizations.
Through the bibliographic survey, 65 articles were found to mention the visit of Ise-daikagura. The number is numerous as compared to other prefectures and there are detailed descriptions of Ise-daikagura in many articles. From these articles, the characteristics of the way of welcoming Ise-daikagura in Shiga prefecture can be analyzed as follows.
First, most people of Shiga recognize the visit of Ise-daikagura as a part of their new-year celebrating events because the troupe comes to this area from New Year’s holidays to the spring. Second, people of Shiga seemed to understand well the purpose of Ise-daikagura’s visit as the purification of the deity of kitchen and fire called Sampo Kojin. It is because the belief of the deity is still alive in this area. Third, the person who has the responsibility to host the performers is quite clear in Shiga area partly because people have maintained the traditional village organization strictly. Fourth, there is less influence of Ise-daikagura’s artistic form on the local performing arts and events compared to other prefectures such as Osaka and Mie where people learn the lion dance and the musical instruments directly from Ise-daikagura performers. Instead of direct transmission, there are several examples of the influence on the nursery rhymes which contain the lyrics about Ise-daikagura. Many other folk customs held on the day of Ise-daikagura’s visit in each village was found through this bibliographic survey.departmental bulletin pape
Waterfall of a Valley Stream : restoration report : the cooperative program for the conservation of Japanese art objects overseas : No.2015-3
Get PDFクラクフ国立博物館（ポーランド共和国）所蔵 Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Poland中林竹洞筆 絹本着色 掛軸装 １幅 Nakabayashi Chikutō, ink on silk, a hanging scroll平成 27 年度修復事業 2015 Japanese Fiscal Yearboo