Abstract
The Nara National Museum preserves an archive entitled Conservation Records of Sculptures by Nihon Bijutsuin, recording conservation carried out between 1899 and 1944 by the sculpture conservation studio Nihon Bijutsuin, established by Okakura Tenshin. This archival resource consists of about 400 files and about 7,000 glass photographic plates. In this study, the author explains its organization, digitalization, and database construction, and also considers the status of archives of cultural properties.
