{Drinking Cup from Dining Set with Plum Blossoms and Cracked-Ice · Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878) · c. 1875–78 · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0}
Each item in this set has a delicate low-relief design of flowering plum branches over scattered, intersecting lines meant to resemble the cracked-ice surface of a frozen body of water and is signed on the base in gold pigment. While Yohei II produced many fine works in underglaze blue, like those p
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文化芸術基本法
Basic Act on Culture and the Arts
平成十三年法律第百四十八号 · Act No. 148 of 2001
Opens by stating that people have a right to enjoy culture, and makes its promotion a duty of national and local government.
The cool part. It puts the arts in the same grammatical register as infrastructure. Not a subsidy argued for each year — a standing obligation.
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