On December 8, 2024, University Museum held the "Disaster Affected Cultural Properties Relief Forum in Nanao 2024" at the Nanao Sun Life Plaza Audio Visual Room as part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Innovate MUSEUM project. 63 people attended the event.
First, Mr. Takuro Adachi, Director of University Museum, explained the purpose of the meeting, including the digital archiving of damaged cultural properties using 3D surveying and the activity reports of Kanazawa University students on their field work such as cleaning and organizing historical materials.This was followed by lectures by four experts on the salvage of damaged cultural properties, each of whom gave a presentation based on their own knowledges.
Mr. Masayasu Kitabayashi from Cultural Property Restoration and Preservation Office, Sports and Culture Division of Nanao City Board of Education, spoke about the status of damage investigation of cultural properties in Nanao City immediately after the earthquake, the difficulty of coordinating with owners and restoring and returning them, and the importance of the "Regional Plan for Preserving and Utilizing Cultural Properties" formulated by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Mr. Ryusuke Kotani from Cultural Property Disaster Prevention Center of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, spoke about the status of cultural property rescue efforts in the Noto Peninsula, making use of the diverse cultural property disaster prevention network system of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage. Next, Mr. Toshifumi Hoashi from Cultural Affairs Division, Education General Affairs Bureau of Kumamoto Prefecture Board of Education, spoke about the response to the heavy rains in July 2020 during the recovery process from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, how the prefecture decided to implement rescue efforts based on the requests of owners, municipalities, and other administrative agencies and related agencies immediately after the disaster, and the importance of daily cooperation with related agencies. Mr. Takeshi Sugii from Department of History, Faculty of Letters of Kumamoto University, introduced the restoration status and challenges of ancient tombs damaged in the Kumamoto earthquake, and the usefulness of accumulating three-dimensional data of remains in peacetime, along with examples. After the lecture, there was a Q&A session.
Participants commented: "It was a good opportunity for me to learn about specific cultural property rescue activities", "I strongly felt the need for 3D measurements" and "I thought it was important to hold such a forum and let residents know about it more"
Co-sponsored by: Kanazawa University Noto Resilience and Revitalization Center
? ?Kanazawa University Museum
? Project of Innovate MUSEUM of the Agency for Cultural Affairs
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Mr. Adachi reporting on activities -
Sekidouzan Isurugihiko Shrine (worship and main hall) in Nakanotomachi, Japan, databased by 3D measurements -
Mr. Hoashi talks about the situation after the torrential rainfall in July 2020 in Kumamoto Prefecture -
Q&A session (from left to right: Mr. Kitabayashi, Mr. Kodani, Mr. Hoashi, and Mr. Sugii)
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