From 700-year-customary swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker,army of conservators absorb painstaking revived museum collectionEven V&A staff who absorb lived with him for years find him extremely sinister. The “living doll” is among hundreds of objects, from a towering 13th-century Buddhist statue to minute beads and toggles with decoration barely visible to the naked eye, and which absorb been through painstaking conservation work before the reopening of the museums Japanese gallery this week.
The new displays will cover centuries of Japanese craftsmanship ,from 700-year-customary blades still so murderously sharp the conservators were given special training in Samurai sword fighting by Asian department curator Greg Irvine to a luridly coloured Hello Kitty rice cooker. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com