NARA, Jan 27 (News On Japan) –
A water-spraying firefighting drill was held on the World Heritage-listed Horyuji Temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, on January twenty sixth, Cultural Property Fire Prevention Day, with monks and native volunteer firefighters collaborating.
The annual drill commemorates the January twenty sixth, 1949 fireplace on the temple’s Kondo (Golden Hall), through which murals have been broken whereas they have been being copied, an incident that later led to the enactment of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 1950 and the institution of Cultural Property Fire Prevention Day in 1955.
Source: Kyodo