A lacquer box with a roof-like design, comprised of several lacquer tablet faces. Black lacquer coating reveals flat, matte, and raised lacquer paintings. In the pattern resembling a deer's back, large gold powder is embedded. The belly is depicted as a silver lacquer inlay. Skills are concentrated in various places. Its calm composition makes it a fine piece of art.
蓋の肩を几帳面に仕立てた被蓋造の箱。黒漆塗に平蒔絵と研出蒔絵、高蒔絵を交えて文様を描き、鹿の背の斑には大きな金粉を打ち込み、腹は銀の蒔暈しで表わすなど、随所に技巧を凝らしています。ゆったりした余情ある構図が上品な作品です。
View the original at Japan Search →Article 1 describes the Ainu as the indigenous people of the northern part of the Japanese archipelago and of Hokkaido in particular, and cites international circumstances concerning indigenous peoples as a reason for acting. It requires the government to set a basic policy, and lets municipalities draw up regional plans for approval by the Prime Minister.
The cool part. The definition in Article 2 is the part to sit with. Ainu culture means the Ainu language, and the ways of living, music, dance, crafts and other cultural products inherited among the Ainu, and cultural products developed from these. That final clause refuses to freeze the culture at a date, and treats what is made next as equally the thing being protected. The Act then reaches into trademark law, reducing or waiving registration fees for regional collective trademarks used by approved projects.
Verify at e-Gov 法令検索 →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