“Restoring not only artworks but also technologies from when the pieces were made allows the Ryukyu Kingdom’s culture to be passed on to posterity, accumulated and kept alive.”
“So many cultural properties were lost during the ground warfare in Okinawa,” said Masayuki Dana, the museum’s director. The effort was a part of the “Ryukyu Kingdom cultural heritage collection and restoration” project of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha. Restoration workers had just 13 fragments of the originals to guide them, including bits of a leg, arms and chest that local residents and others retrieved soon after the war. NAHA-A pair of “Nio” Buddhist deity statues that stood guard at Enkakuji temple here from the 15th century until their destruction in World War II have been restored in a six-year project.
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