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Curator Assistant Training Course -3

We had our 3rd session yesterday. We learned how to handle various materials and practiced wrapping ancient documents. :) 地域学芸員養成講座、第3回目の昨日は、資料の扱い方を習い、古文書を薄葉紙で包んで封筒に入れる練習を実践。^^)

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The instructor lectured about how carefully we should be when handling different materials. All of them made a perfect sense, but I feel I’m not cut out for that kind of tasks, honestly. ;P　Though I tried to be careful when I have to be, I’m not such a careful person anyway. 講師の先生は、いろんな資料を扱う時どうすべきか、具体的に説明して下さり。うんうん確かにそれだけ気をつけなきゃなぁと納得はしつつも、うわー自分は本来こういうのには向いてないわなぁーと感じる私。^^；必要な時は注意深くとか丁寧にしようと努力はするけど、本来どんぶり勘定で生きてますから私。

Then the instructor showed us real old documents -- obviously not terribly valuable ones because we might damage them -- and had us practice wrapping them with special tissue paper. それから実習で、本物の古文書ーと言っても、初心者の練習用なんでそんな貴重なものではなくーを、薄葉紙で包む練習を。

Yeah, I’m not cut out for this kind of thing. I’m more curious about what’s written inside and tend to pay less attention to how to wrap it. But actually seeing the old documents made me feel somewhat connected to the persons who wrote them. There actually existed those people who wrote these using brushes. What were they thinking/feeling when they were writing these? Were they happy? Worried? Disgusted? Bored? Hungry? What were they wearing as they wrote these? ...　I enjoyed imagining things like that, though I knew I should concentrate on the wrapping task itself. ;P 包み方より、中に何が書かれてるのかの方が知りたくて、ついそっちに注意が行ってしまうんで私。^^;　（昔のサザエさんの漫画で、年末大掃除で畳を上げたら、下に敷いてあった新聞紙が出てきて、新聞の記事を読みふけって掃除を忘れてしまうのがあったけど。まさにソレ。）^^;;; でもとにかく、こうやって本物の文書を実際見て手で触れると、なんかそれを書いた人たちとつながったような気がしました。コレを実際書いた人たちが実在したんだ。その人達、コレを書いた時、何を考えてたんだろう？どんな気分だったんだろう？何を着て書いてたんだろう？ そんなしょーもないコトばかりが頭に浮かんで、技術が身に付かないのだけど、なんか新鮮な時間だった気がしました。

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[joyousnudibranch]

Curator Assistant Training Course -2

So, in our 2nd session, the lecture was about storage and maintenance. We learned about the causes of deterioration and various prevention methods. 地域学芸員養成講座、第2回目の座学は、「保存」について。 劣化の原因や、予防の方法などについて学びました。

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Sounded like humidity is such a pain in the neck everywhere and a sudden change in temperature/humidity is no good. For example, if the museum in our prefecture borrowed some artifacts from the one in northern part of Japan, they leave them unopened for a week to let them get used to the temperature/humidity here, the instructor said. Gee! How sensitive you have to be for handling things of historical values! やはり湿気は大敵のようで。温度や湿度の突然の変化もよくないとのこと。例えば、もし高知の博物館が東北の博物館から展示物を借りた場合、梱包したまま1週間放置して、高知の気温と湿度に慣らしてから初めて開けるのだそうです。＠＠ そこまでするとは。

In the practicum, we practiced making cushions used for packing. It's basically cotton wrapped with special tissue paper. We also learned how to tie square knot (reef knot?) :D 実習では、梱包の時に使う緩衝材の綿布団作りを練習。出来たヤツを写真に撮るの忘れたけど、見るからにふわっとして心地よさそうでした。 その他、本結びも習ったけど。ワタシてっきり、普段自分が何も考えずに結んでるのが本結びだと思い込んでたのが、違うとわかってオドロキ。本当の本結びだと、引っ張ってシュパッとほどくことができるんですワ！知ってました？

Reading handwritten ancient documents was quite a challenge. We had a homework and I guess no one did all of them correctly. Oh well. Better luck next time. 古文書講座の方は実に手ごわいデス。宿題あったけどナカナカ歯が立ちません。なんでコレがこの字ぃぃぃ～～？？？？の連続。^^;; 次回の宿題もどうなることやら。

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