Rebuilding Izium

Rebuilding Izium

IZIUM, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 - A builder repairs the building of the city's administration after Russian troops set fire to it during their retreat in September 2022, Izium, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine.

Restoration project at Buddhist grottoes completed in Henan, China

STORY: Restoration project at Buddhist grottoes completed in Henan, China DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: ZHENGZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the restoration project 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHI JIAZHEN, Director of Longmen Grottoes Research Institute STORYLINE: A restoration project of Longmen Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in China's Henan, has been completed. The project was launched in Dec. 2021 to treat water seepage and reinforce rocks at the Fengxian Temple, the largest cave of Longmen Grottoes. Water seepage and perilous rock bases are the two factors that threaten the existence of cultural relics in the grottoes. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHI JIAZHEN, Director of Longmen Grottoes Research Institute "The cultural relics protection project should proceed in a scientific way. It's not easy to build scaffolds here, so we have tried our best to accomplish three types of work with it. (Apart from the restoration) we have also conducted a general survey o

THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND

THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND

THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND Date: 1936

The cave on Enoshima Island

The cave on Enoshima Island

The cave in Enoshima. At low tide, people can walk along the banks. There are scaffolds set up so that people can walk inside the cave at full tide. The entrance to the cave seems to be about 5-6 m from the comparison with the height of people in the cave.==Date:unknown, Place:Enoshima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number14‐20‐0]

Gongen Shrine,Hakone

Gongen Shrine,Hakone

There are wooden scaffolds around the Hakone Gongen, but no record of restoration during the Meiji era remains at the Shrine, so the picture may have been taken when the shrine was repainted. The Ministry of the Interior provided 300 yen in 1884 to preserve the ancient shrine, so the photo may have been taken at that time.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐40‐0]