The present invention provides hard coating preparation having a hard coating layer, unbreakable, made from sugar/sugar alcohols and oxidized starch and/or acid treated starch, with low waste of coating liquid when forming the coating layer.The hard coating preparation has the hard coating layer containing any one of sugar/sugar alcohols selected from the group of maltitol, xylitol, erythritol, mannitol, lactitol, PALATINIT (registered trade mark), trehalose, sucrose, and oxidized starch and/or acid treated starch.