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Front cover illustration

1300-year-old mural paintings with serious discolorations and blackening in the small stone chamber of the Takamatsu-zuka tumulus in the village of Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The upper image shows part of the star constellations (Seishuku) on the ceiling (image courtesy Nara National Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan). The lower image is part of a group of the four women known as the Asuka beauties, or the Asuka bijin, on the west wall plaster (image courtesy Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan). See the paper by Nagatsuka et al. in this issue, pp. 186–194.