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It looked like a scene from a battle, according to the husband and wife artists who created “The Hiroshima Panels.”
HIGASHI-MATSUYAMA, Saitama Prefecture--A painting from a series that depicted the Hiroshima atomic bombing has been restored by repairing damage and removing stains.
The first completed restoration among the "Hiroshima Panels" series of paintings that depict the horrors of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II was unveiled to the media on Wednesday at a gallery dedicated to the powerful artworks.
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.
MINAMATA, Kumamoto Prefecture--A deteriorating cloth artwork depicting a Minamata mercury poisoning victim for a traveling one-man stage performance has been restored and preserved for future generations.