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.

宗達[俵屋宗達]／関屋図屏風 部分
{宗達[俵屋宗達]／関屋図屏風 部分 · 東京文化財研究所撮影 · 1933年 · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Soeda [Hon'ami Soeda] / Screen Painting Part of the Kagya Chart Soeda, named Hon'ami, created a section of the Kagya Screen Painting. · Tokyo Cultural Property Research Institute Photography.

The Tokyo National Museum houses a "Hon'ami Koetsu Brush and Ushijima Yasunobu Screening Scroll" (Collection Management Number: A-12190). The glass plate photograph of this item was taken at the Tokyo Cultural Property Research Institute in 1933. All 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 confirm with the relevant holding institutions.

東京国立博物館が所蔵する「俵屋宗達筆、烏丸光広賛／関屋図屏風」（機関管理番号：A-12190）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
文化財の不法な輸出入等の規制等に関する法律
Act on Controls on the Illicit Export and Import of Cultural Property
平成十四年法律第八十一号 · Act No. 81 of 2002

Japan implementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention. When a foreign state reports that cultural property has been stolen from an institution, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs notifies the education ministry, which designates the object as specified foreign cultural property, after consulting the trade ministry. Importing a designated object then requires approval under the foreign exchange and trade law.

The cool part. Article 6 quietly rewrites private law. Under the Civil Code a good-faith purchaser is normally secure against a recovery claim after two years. For designated stolen foreign cultural property, the victim may demand recovery from two years after the theft until ten years have passed. Buying in good faith does not settle the question for a decade, which is roughly how long it takes a stolen object to surface on a legitimate market.

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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