A young researcher recently completed restoration work on one of "The Hiroshima Panels," a famous series of paintings by the late Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Iri and Toshi Maruki depicting the tragedy of war and the suffering caused by the use of nuclear weapons in World War II.Haruka Saito, a 33-year-old researcher of cultural property preservation and part-time lecturer at the Aichi University of the Arts, completed an 18-month-long project to repair the first work in the series, which comprises two 1.8-meter-high, 3.6-meter-wide folding panels, to pass down to future generations.The work…READ FULL ARTICLE
