The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Staff Members

HIDAKA Shingo
HIDAKA ShingoHIDAKA Shingo
Research Center for Cultural Resources・Associate Professor
Research Specialization
Individual Research Projects
  • The Development of the Warmed Carbon Dioxide Processing
Personal website [4 Jan 2013 updated]

Academic Qualifications:

  • B.A. Tokai Univ. 1995

Research Topics:

  1. Research on pest control method using for carbon dioxide
  2. Research on conservation treatment of “Dosuriusu” (a clay mortar)
  3. Research on conservation treatment of museum materials

Recent Research Interests:

  • My present interest is how to make an efficient pest control for museum objects. A treatment using carbon dioxide could be one of the possibilities.
    As ethnographic objects are made of many sorts of materials employing several techniques, it is necessary to make an accurate investigation for each conservation treatment. I have made researches in a conservation of techniques, objects made from wood, leather, and rice straw, and now I am interested in a conservation treatment of “clay material”.

Discipline:

  • Conservation science, conservation treatment

Publications:

2011
Integrated pest management at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan: re-evaluation of preventive measures and control strategies, Naoko Sonoda and Shingo Hidaka, Integrated Pest Management for Collections, P123-138. England: A Pest Odyssey
2006
Material Research of Onna-Norimono by Using a Portable XRF. Non-Destructive Examination of Cultural Objects – Recent Advances in X-Ray Analysis –, pp.91–911. Tokyo: National Research Institute for Curtural Properties.

Presentations:

2004
(With N. Sonoda, T. Morita, T. Okayama, H. Ohtani, M. Seki, K. Masuda, M. Kanayama and S. Muramoto) “New Evaluation Methods of Paper Deterioration: Study of British Parliamentary Papers in the Collection of National Museum of Ethnology.” The International Conference Durability of Paper and Writing, 16–19 November.