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.

光琳[尾形光琳]/風神雷神図屏風 部分
{光琳[尾形光琳]/風神雷神図屏風 部分 · 東京文化財研究所 · Date unrecorded · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Kourin [Oigami Kourin] / Fujin Raijin Tsuibousho Kourin (Kourin by Oigami) / Wind God and Thunder God Screen Part of. · Tokyo Cultural Heritage Research Institute

The Tokyo National Museum holds a "Taillefer Glass, Hosoi Holds-one-brush / Fujin Raijin Scroll / Summer Autumn Flowers Screen" (Inventory number: A-11189). The information regarding the title, etc. is based on the investigation records at the time of the photograph taken by the Tokyo Cultural Property Research Institute in 1933. For the current information regarding the title, etc., please confirm with the relevant preservation institutions.

東京国立博物館が所蔵する「尾形光琳、酒井抱一筆/風神雷神図/夏秋草花図屏風」(機関管理番号:A-11189)を東京文化財研究所で1933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
屋外広告物法
Outdoor Advertising Act
昭和二十四年法律第百八十九号 · Act No. 189 of 1949

Article 1 gives three grounds for regulating a sign: forming good landscape, maintaining scenic character, and preventing danger to the public. Article 3 then lets a prefecture prohibit outdoor advertising outright, by ordinance, in named categories of place.

The cool part. Read the list in Article 3 and it stops being an advertising law. The places where signage can be banned include landscape districts, scenic districts, preservation districts for groups of traditional buildings, the surroundings of designated Important Cultural Properties, and historic sites, places of scenic beauty and natural monuments. The statute protects the view by removing the sentences written across it.

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Use it Palette for a single-colour run: one ink, heavy stock, nothing else on the sheet.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated