(Restorations include: paintings & decorative colorings of religious buildings, murals, panel painting such as Sugido-e (paintings on cedar-board door) or Ema (wooden wishing plaque), recoloring the Buddhist statues, traditional puppets of Bunraku or Ningyo Jyoruri, or Noumen – masks used in Noh dance and so on.)
(Research & examinations include: paintings & decorative colorings of religious buildings, murals, panel painting such as Sugido-e (paintings on cedar-board door) or Ema (wooden wishing plaque), recoloring the Buddhist statues, traditional puppets of Bunraku or Ningyo Jyoruri, or Noumen – masks used in Noh dance and so on.)
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▼Ganshoin Temple in Obuse, Nagano Inspecting the ceiling painting of Happo Nirami Ho-oh Zu, a phoenix by famed ukiyo-e artist Hokusai
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(Main Hall of the Tomi Shrine, Nara City, color paintings peel-off work)
Utilizing our Ema restoration skills and research works on the painting materials and techniques, we offer replica making of dedicating Emas (small wooden plaques on which worshipers at shrines write their prayers or wishes.) including Funazu, Kabukizu or Mushazu Ema, or “Flowers and Birds” Sugido-e (painting on cedar-board door).
We also offer Ema damage restorations from peeled off paintings and soot dirt.
Please contact us for more details.
Nikawa paint is used for ninuri red painting of temples and shrines. We’d blend and prepare Dousa sizing solution & Nikawa red paint individually, according to the location of a building and/or the season i.e. where &when the paint is applied.
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Development and Sales of Gyuhi-Wanikawa cow hide glue
| ▼Users can select desired Nikawa products match their purpose & application
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| ▼Dried cow hide of Kuroge-Wagyu (Japanese Black Cattle), the raw materials of our Nikawa product developed by the “world’s only” technique.
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▼Nikawa liquid extracted
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| ▼Gyuhi-Wanikawa of the first extraction (left) Gyuhi-Wanikawa of the third extraction (right)
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▼Glue made with Nikawa, bamboo vinegar, tung oil and starch syrup
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