1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The study of Japanese Inlay Works by Scientific Metho

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06834009
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	文化財科学
Research Institution	Nara University
Principal Investigator	NISHIYAMA Yoichi Nara University, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (00090936)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1995
Keywords	inlay / gold / silver / cupper / specialist / traditional
Research Abstract	Japanese inlay works were from ancient China and Korea. In ancient Japan, We can see 15 swards of inlaid characters and 250 swards of inlaid figure. They are inlaid with gold, silver and cupper. I analyzed them, and I get the results that the gold inlay is alloy of gold (70-80%) and silver (30-20%). and silver and cupper are pure. In Japan, there was only specialist groupe of inlay works, and this groupe left the traditional technique of inlay works.

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