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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.

結城合戦絵巻 巻二
{結城合戦絵巻 巻二 · 栃木県立博物館 · Date unrecorded · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Battle of Kjusu Scroll Two · Ibaraki Prefectural Museum [Note: Kenritsu means Prefectural, and Hakubutsukan means Museum in Japanese.]

This is the second volume of a five-scroll series depicting the Onin War, which took place between the 12th and 13th years of the Onin era (around 1440-41). During the Onin War, the rulers of the Rokkaku and Ashikaga shogunal houses, Shogun Sh maru and Ujinao, disobeyed the shogunal court and took up arms against it (Battle of Onin). When the forces of the imperial court, under siege in Inshi, were met with fierce attacks, they were forced to attempt an escape from the city due to the depletion of their arrows.

永享12年~13年(1440~41)に起こった結城合戦を描いた5巻からなる絵巻物の2巻目です。結城氏朝が永享の乱で自害した鎌倉公方・足利持氏の遺児の春王丸・安王丸を奉じて、幕府に対して挙兵しました(結城合戦)。居城に籠もった結城勢に対して幕府による猛攻撃にあい、矢も尽きてしまったためやむなく城外への脱出を試みています。

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

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated