Over the past year, I have been writing about the work of restoring cultural properties and the production of Buddhist paintings. Looking back, he thinks about the “significance of handwork.” I really feel that manual work is fun. Focusing and immersing yourself in detailed work, the joy of finishing as much work as you can, the wisdom and ingenuity to do well, and the tension that you can’t fail. I think it’s a primitive part of human beings to enjoy making things, and as we all know the fun of handicrafts, DIY, and handmade, I think many people can relate to it.
In my columns, I’ve always wanted to be specific about my work and to introduce as much of the small world I’m involved in as possible. On the other hand, I also feel that it is difficult to make this a profession in modern society.
Traditional industries are said to have a shortage of workers, but there are many cases where it is difficult to reflect the time and effort of manual labor in the price, and it is not possible to establish a large industry. It is difficult to get a job related to

鶴の復原絵画を描く筆者（The author of a crane painting）

Under such circumstances, the occupation of “cultural property repair” is a field with a certain demand for human resources. A certain percentage of the cost of repairing designated cultural properties is covered by subsidies, but cultural properties now play a major role as tourism resources, and I believe that a human resource cycle will be established as an industry. In the future, I hope that the training and introduction of a qualification system for engineers involved in cultural properties will progress further, and that the development of stable human resources will eventually become a stable occupation.
Finally, when I wrote the column, I was suggested that the theme would be related to the cultural property industry and ICT. It’s all over.
I believe that it is an important responsibility to preserve information and records in the restoration of cultural properties, and I try to put it into practice. I think that what kind of repairs were made, what parts were repaired, and what kind of information was obtained from the actual product through investigations are important data. Scanning technology will become even more indispensable in the future to accurately record the current situation, and we believe that it will also provide important information for repair engineers. I feel that digital archiving will progress and we will be able to use information meaningfully.