Intangible Cultural Heritage conducts basic research useful for the conservation and transmission of intangible cultural heritage of Japan, such as intangible cultural properties, intangible folk cultural properties and conservation techniques for cultural properties.
Audio-visual documentation, which is a significant method for the conservation of intangible cultural heritage, is conducted and new methods for documentation are also investigated.
Publications
- Report of the Conference on the Study of Intangible Folk Cultural Properties
- Report of the Forum "ICH and Covid19"
- A Guidebook for Selected Conservation Techniques 2016
- Other publications
Audio-visual records
Archives
Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
13-43 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8713 Japan