Daily maintenance work is crucial for protecting historic gardens from deterioration. This study examines a maintenance procedure based on the Cultural Properties Protection Act and the management manual to gain an understanding of the present situation of conservation and the implementation of appropriate and efficient maintenance methods for gardens, considered as “cultural properties.” When the descriptions of the maintenance procedure in the Cultural Properties Protection Act, the law guide, and the management manual were compared, it became clear that differences will continue to exist between the procedure described in the law and that described in the management manual unless five patterns in the law and three patterns of restoration are adjusted. Consequently, the law should be revised to enable smooth daily maintenance, and the concept of restoration should be redefined to encompass maintenance, repair, restoration, and reconstruction. Moreover, maintenance, and repair besides an important element constituting essential value must describe that a report of damage is disuse in Article 120, and repair of the important elements that constitute essential value must be described in Article 125 as “a level in maintenance.”
