Japan’S Master Of Restoration
Japan’S Master Of Restoration is a TV show on BBC4. Where broken beauty is reborn. How legendary art restorer Koji Mayuyama is preserving ancient treasures, one divine touch at a time. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Japan’S Master Of Restoration
The Mayuyamas travel to London to examine a priceless 18th-century imperial Chinese flower vase. They hope studying the London vase can help them restore a very similar piece.
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The father and son undertake the restoration of a ceramic horse from the Edo period. A previous restoration is now showing signs of age, and a new approach is needed.
A museum in Osaka asks the Mayuyamas for help with artefacts currently hidden away in their archive: an exquisite 800-year-old celadon vase from China and a 16th-century tea bowl.