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Tue, Apr 12, 2022

Restoration works of Japan’s artistic treasures supported by TSUMUGU

In fiscal 2022, the Tsumugu Project — a joint effort of Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency, Imperial Household Agency and national daily The Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo) to help conserve the nation’s artistic treasures — is providing financial support for the restoration of six cultural assets, comprising two registered national treasures and four registered important cultural properties.

  

★ ‘Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect’
of Jobonrendai-ji in Kyoto to go under repair


(Aug 11, 2022)

The “Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect” of Jobonrendai-ji temple (Kyoto) was moved to Kyoto National Museum’s Conservation Center for Cultural Properties for repairs.
 
 

★ ‘Landscape’ fusuma-e partition painting
of Kyoto’s Rinka-in temple to go under repair


(Aug 9, 2022)

Important cultural property
Landscape
Hasegawa Tohaku
(Rinka-in temple, Kyoto)
 
 

★ Otokunidera temple’s statue of standing
Bishamonten to be repaired in Kyoto


(Aug 2, 2022)

Important cultural property
Standing Bishamonten (Vaisravana)
(Otokunidera temple, Kyoto Prefecture)
 
 

★ Repair work of Shitenno-ji’s fan-shaped booklets,
Tomyo-ji documents underway


(Jun 29, 2022)

One of the five “Fan-shaped Booklets of the Lotus Sutra” housed at Shitenno-ji temple in Osaka city (Photo courtesy of Shitenno-ji temple)
Tomyo-ji Priest Kujun Soda, left, and Shuri kobo Zaisho President Yoshiaki Fujii examine the historical documents at Saga Prefectural Museum in Saga city.
 
 

★ TSUMUGU repair in fiscal 2022 to start
with Historical Documents of Chomeiji


(Apr 10, 2022)

Chomeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala

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