Living National Treasure is a title awarded in countries including Japan and Australia.

See Australian Living Treasures Australian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia. ...

In Japan it is awarded to certain masters of crafts such as woodblock printing (ukiyo-e), papermaking and pottery, with the aim of preserving skills and techniques in danger of being lost. Woodblock Printing (see also: xylography) is a technique for printing used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China sometime between the mid-6th and late 9th centuries. ... Ukiyo-e (Kanji 浮世絵, meaning pictures of the floating world) is the general term for a genre of Japanese woodblock prints produced between the 17th and the 20th century, featuring motifs of landscapes, the theater and pleasure quarters. ... Piece of paper Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres. ... sex is great // Types of pottery Aesthetic and artistic considerations have often been part of the formation of the pottery vessels, however modern mass production techniques have replaced the traditional role of pottery with mechanized reproduction, which has in turn caused the potter to be more focused on the aesthetic...

People designated as "living national treasures" include:

• Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), woodblock printer
• Shinsui Ito (1888-1972), woodblock printer

Kawase Hasui (川瀬 巴水, 1883 – 1957) was a Japanese woodblock printmaker in the early 20th century. ... Before the Mirror by Shinsui Ito Shinsui Ito (伊東深水) (February 4, 1898–May 8, 1972), born Hajime Ito in Tokyo, was a Japanese artist who made woodblock prints in the ukiyo-e style, specializing in bijin-ga (beautiful women) and landscapes. ...