Foreword Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction A technical study of the HokkedA? konpon mandara Jacki Elgar, Anne Nishimura Morse, and Richard Newman Materials for "gold" and "silver" tints in pictorial ornamentation of twelfth-century Japanese manuscripts Yasushi Egami Scientific analysis used in the treatment of the Map of the World and Famous Cities screens and resulting new perspectives on the paintings Yasuhiro Oka, Sadatoshi Miura, Yasuhiro Hayakawa, and Tetsuo Miyakoshi Three polychrome Japanese Buddhist sculptures from the Kamakura period: the scientific examination of layer structures, ground materials, pigments, metal leafs, and powders Mark Richter The identification and light sensitivity of Japanese woodblock print colorants: the impact on art history and preservation Sandra A. Connors, Paul M. Whitmore, Roger S. Keyes, and Elizabeth I. Coombs Dayflower blue: its appearance and lightfastness in traditional Japanese prints Shiho Sasaki and Elizabeth I. Coombs Recent research on historic paper components in East Asian art objects Agnieszka Helman-Wazny An evaluation of xuan paper permanence and discussion of historical Chinese paper materials M. Brigitte Yeh and Jesse Munn Traditional Korean papermaking Hyejung Yum Investigation of alum in gelatin sizing of Far Eastern paintings on silk Ekaterina Pasnak, Season Tse, and Alison Murray Foxing on the backs of Chinese paintings Xie Yulin and Chen Yuansheng Chinese painting colors: history and reality Jennifer Giaccai and John Winter Painting materials and deterioration phenomena in a Yuan dynasty wall painting John Twilley and Kathleen M. Garland Research plan for the restoration of the multicolored paintings in Lungshan Temple at Lu-Gang Tung Kuo-king and Tsai Yu-lin Crossing the line: the interplay between scientific examination and conservation approaches in the treatment of a fifteenth-century Nepali thangka Marco Leona and Sandhya S.

Jain Kalighat Pats: an examination of techniques and materials Christine Mackay and Aditi Nath Sarkar The conservation of the cultural property of India: board games depicted as murals Rangachar Vasantha Artistic practices of the Bohol school of painting: an analytical and archival study of nineteenth-century panel paintings in the Philippines Nicole Tse Wall decoration systems in the temples of Angkor Esther von Plehwe-Leisen and Hans Leisen.