Talk:Living National Treasure (Japan)

More citations
This article needs many more citations, ideally at least one from Japanese Government. Also - I think we should consider creating it as a page which describes the concepts across cultures (for example, Korea has something comparable) - and then there could be sub-sections for each country? Jack Nunn 05:20, 8 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacknunn (talk • contribs)

Complete list of Living Treasures?
Is there a complete list of all Japanese Living National Treasures either in print or on line? I am looking for a LNT not in the most popular categories. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.251.151.150 (talk • contribs)


 * Not as far as I know... but I haven't ever looked. LordAmeth 09:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Let's try to get this from the Ministry of Culture. Can you make a call up to Tokyo to do that? Badagnani 02:15, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Why capitalization?
Since, as the article acknowledges, there is really no such thing in Japan as a title called "living national treasure", why do you keep capitalizing it? It is a media invention. As this following article says, the law was to preserve artistic techniques, "Important Intangible Cultural Property", not to praise individuals. See: http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/lnt-critique-aoyama.html Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 04:44, 12 October 2014 (UTC)


 * It's capitalized in the article because that's how it's most commonly written in English. You'll see that your link does the same thing. -Cckerberos (talk) 00:06, 13 October 2014 (UTC)


 * "Monkey see, monkey do." There's no better reason than that? Who decides what persons get to be called a "living national treasure"? I love the idea of a l.n.t. in Japanese arts, but if the title doesn't even exist, why is there a whole WP article about it? Shouldn't it be deleted? Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 04:07, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * "Living National Treasure" is a nickname for the title of "Preserver of Important Intangible Cultural Properties", which is granted by the Japanese government. The nickname is used rather than the formal title to reflect common usage in Japanese and English. --Cckerberos (talk) 03:47, 17 October 2014 (UTC)