Exhibition in Kyoto

97th Hanging scroll mounting exhibition was held at Kyoto Cultural Museum last Sunday, the engineer group is very active in repairing old and ancient Japanese National Treasures, so their technology shown there was nothing but some ultimate technology. The end processing of their works are great and above words. They are now all busy for the preparation works of  Ise Jingu in Mie Prefecture. I could hear by chance about a piece of special technical methods from the representative of the group who is my friend that the glue is made from boiled flour powder and mature the material as long as 10 years to obtain adequate and flexible physical property avoiding cracks on the surface according to wound-surround procedure. And the works with natural glue are inhibited while the rainy season because of it's physical property conflicting with too much humidity.  It is an unique and secret technique that was transmitted from generation to generation for hundreds of years.