{"id":2091,"date":"2022-01-15T03:01:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T02:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2022\/01\/15\/video-the-canon-tsuzuri-project-combines-canons-state-of-the-art-technologies-to-recreate-japanese-masterpieces\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T03:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T02:01:38","slug":"video-the-canon-tsuzuri-project-combines-canons-state-of-the-art-technologies-to-recreate-japanese-masterpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2022\/01\/15\/video-the-canon-tsuzuri-project-combines-canons-state-of-the-art-technologies-to-recreate-japanese-masterpieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Canon Tsuzuri Project combines Canon’s state-of-the-art technologies to recreate Japanese masterpieces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Through the Tsuzuri Project<\/a>, Canon preserves Japanese culture’s beauty and historical significance. Canon makes high-quality, high-resolution recreations of important Japanese works of art, including screens, paintings, illustrations and more. Since 2007, Canon has been working on the project, ensuring that Japanese cultural assets, both within Japan and aboard, are preserved and shared.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Canon and the National Center for the Promotion of Cultural Properties (CPCP) launched a research project<\/a> to create and utilize high-resolution facsimiles of cultural properties. These high-resolution facsimiles of Japanese masterpieces use the same technology as the ongoing Tsuzuri Project.<\/p>\n

But why are we talking about this today? Last week, Canon released a video from its Tsuzuri Project showing a stunning, famous painting, ‘Wind God and Thunder God,’ by Tawaraya S\u014dtatsu. The painting, which is on a pair of two-fold screens, was created using ink and color on gold-foiled paper. It’s unclear precisely when the work was created, although S\u014dtatsu lived from 1570 to 1640. The painting depicts Raijin and F\u016bjin, two gods in the Shinto religion. Raijin is the god of lightning, thunder, and storms, and F\u016bjin is the god of wind.<\/p>\n