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 三扇
{雪舟/花鳥図屏風[四季花鳥図屏風] 右隻 三扇 · 東京文化財研究所撮影 · 1931年 · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Snow Boat / Flower-Bird Screen Painting [Four Seasons Flower-Bird Screen Painting] Right Panel, Three Doors. · Tokyo Cultural Heritage Research Institute Photographs

The Kyoto National Museum holds a "Four Seasons Bird Screen" (institution inventory number: A-AL815). This is a glass plate photograph taken of the item at the Tokyo Cultural Property Research Institute in 1931. The information regarding the title and so on is based on the investigation records at the time of photographing. For the current information regarding the title and so on, 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
アイヌの人々の誇りが尊重される社会を実現するための施策の推進に関する法律
Act on Promoting Measures to Realise a Society in which the Pride of the Ainu People is Respected
平成三十一年法律第十六号 · Act No. 16 of 2019

Article 1 describes the Ainu as the indigenous people of the northern part of the Japanese archipelago and of Hokkaido in particular, and cites international circumstances concerning indigenous peoples as a reason for acting. It requires the government to set a basic policy, and lets municipalities draw up regional plans for approval by the Prime Minister.

The cool part. The definition in Article 2 is the part to sit with. Ainu culture means the Ainu language, and the ways of living, music, dance, crafts and other cultural products inherited among the Ainu, and cultural products developed from these. That final clause refuses to freeze the culture at a date, and treats what is made next as equally the thing being protected. The Act then reaches into trademark law, reducing or waiving registration fees for regional collective trademarks used by approved projects.

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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