The conservation of this impressive figure of the bodhisattva Fugen Enmei has spanned not just years, but also thousands of miles 🗼 The Museum’s Organics conservators worked closely with the Conservation Team at Tokyo University of the Arts (@tokyo_geidai) to restore the figure – providing invaluable insight, as well as carving and gilding the new votive elements – allowing us a glimpse of what this figure might have looked like when it was first produced during Japan’s Edo period. ‘Enmei’ mean