Huang Goodman · Art Forgotten

Art Forgotten

Art from public museum collections. A mismatched real Japanese law, and some other factoids.

Every object, image and description comes from the museum's own catalogue record, and every object links to its original. Japanese records are machine-translated into English; the museum's Japanese is kept beside the translation because it is the authoritative form. Each law carries its official number and links to e-Gov 法令検索, the Japanese government's statute database.

雪舟／花鳥図屏風[四季花鳥図屏風] 右隻 一扇
{雪舟／花鳥図屏風[四季花鳥図屏風] 右隻 一扇 · 東京文化財研究所撮影 · 1931年 · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Snowboat / Four Seasons Bird-and-Flower Byōbu [Snowboat Four Seasons Bird-and-Flower Byōbu] Right panel, one folding screen. · Tokyo Cultural Heritage Research Institute Photography

Kyoto National Museum possesses a "Four Seasons Bird Screen" (institution management number: A-Alpha-815). This is a glass plate photograph taken of the item at Tokyo Cultural Property Research Institute in 1931. The information regarding the title and such is recorded based on the investigation reports at the time of photographing. For the current information regarding the title and such, please check with the relevant preservation institutions.

京都国立博物館が所蔵する「四季花鳥図屏風」（機関管理番号：A甲815）を東京文化財研究所で1931年に撮影したガラス乾板です。作品名等の情報は撮影時の調査記録を元に記載しております。現在の作品名等については各所蔵機関の情報をご確認ください。

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The law
図書館法
Library Act
昭和二十五年法律第百十八号 · Act No. 118 of 1950

Article 3 tells libraries what to gather, and the list is wider than books: local materials, local administrative records, works of art, records and film. Article 3 also requires interlibrary lending, travelling collections and mobile libraries, so that the holdings move toward the reader rather than waiting.

The cool part. Article 17 is one sentence and admits nothing. A public library may not collect an admission fee, or any consideration whatsoever, for the use of library materials. Free is not a policy that a budget round can revisit, it is the statute. Article 26 is stranger still: the state and local authorities must not interfere in the work of a private library, and must not give it a subsidy. Independence is protected by withholding the money.

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Use it The border is the idea. Use it as an edge treatment and leave the centre empty.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated