The Tsumugu Project — operated by Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency, Imperial Household Agency and national daily newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun — will provide financial support to help restore seven cultural assets, including the wooden seated statue of Yakushi Nyorai, a designated national treasure housed at the Shinyakushi-ji temple in Nara city, in fiscal 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shinyakushi-ji’s seated Yakushi Nyorai, known for its distinctive, wide-open eyes, was carved from a single block of Japanese nutmeg wood using the ichiboku-zukuri<\/em> technique in the late Nara-early Heian period. Conservators will spend two years to fix the cracks from insect damage found on the base of the statue and to deal with other issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another designated national treasure to be repaired under the project starting next year is a set of documents and texts concerning Heian-period monk Enchin (founder of the Jimon school of the esoteric Tendai Buddhism, otherwise known as Chisho Daishi) housed at the Mi-i-dera temple (also known as Onjo-ji temple) in Shiga Prefecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The five other assets are all designated important cultural properties: <\/p>\n\n\n\n (From The Yomiuri Shimbun and other sources)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tsumugu Project — operated by Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency, Imperial Household Ag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[172,125,71,521],"class_list":["post-19820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-important_cultural_property","tag-nara","tag-national_treasure","tag-shinyakushiji"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n