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.

Cup
{Cup · Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951) · 1914–46 · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0}

Like his father, Yohei IV also produced works with red or yellow monochrome glazes. His yellow-glazed works include this set of five drinking cups, a pair of sake pourers CMA 2022.216, and a sweets bowl molded into the shape of a chrysanthemum CMA 2022.218.

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The law
博物館法
Museum Act
昭和二十六年法律第二百八十五号 · Act No. 285 of 1951

Article 2 defines a museum as an institution that collects, keeps and displays materials on history, art, folklore, industry and natural science for public use, carries out research on them, and which has been registered under Chapter 2 of this Act. The registration is not decorative. In law, an unregistered collection open to the public is not a museum.

The cool part. The definition of keeping is given as including raising. That single parenthesis is why a zoo, an aquarium and a botanical garden sit inside museum law in Japan: the collection is allowed to be alive. Article 1 also grounds the statute in the Social Education Act and the Basic Act on Culture and the Arts, which places museums in education first and culture second.

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Use it Two-colour foil on uncoated stock gets you most of this at production cost.

Description source: museum curator text — not generated