The Tsuzuri Project (Official Title: Cultural Heritage Inheritance Project), a joint project between Canon and the Kyoto Culture Association (NPO), aims to pass on Japanese art and culture to future generations. The project involves producing high-resolution facsimiles of precious cultural assets such as decorative folding screens and sliding door paintings from Japanese antiquity, enabling the original artwork to be stored and preserved in a controlled environment while the high-resolution facsimiles are displayed to the public and actively used for educational purposes.
The project, which began in 2007 and completed its fourth stage in March 2011, has resulted in the creation of high-resolution facsimiles for a total of 21 Japanese national treasures and important cultural assets by such artists as Sesshu, Kano Eitoku and Tawaraya Sotatsu. Although some of these original works belong to overseas collections, the high-resolution facsimiles have been donated to, among other parties, the original owners and governments of local regions with historical links to the cultural assets