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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.

前九年合戦絵巻
{前九年合戦絵巻 · 東京国立博物館 · 鎌倉時代・14世紀 / Kamakura period, 14th century · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Previously, scrolls of battle paintings (from nine years ago)

During the Heian period, around the middle, an event unfolded in the province of Mutsu (currently in the Tohoku region). A scene of Abe O-no-miyasada presenting horses and gold to Yasuna-no-o no Yasuaki, the governor of the provincial office, is depicted. This was triggered by the horse injury incident at the Akuyu River. The turning point for Yasuna-no-o Yasuaki and Abe O-no-miyasada to engage in a decisive battle is preserved. The main characters are named, and each has a distinctive expression.

平安時代中期、陸奥で起こった前九年の役を描く。安倍頼時が鎮守府将軍源頼義に駿馬金銀を献上し恭順を誓う場面、阿久利河での人馬殺傷事件をきっかけに頼義・頼時が決裂し合戦へと至る発端部分が残る。主要人物には名を付し、それぞれの表情も個性に富む。

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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 A motif small enough to blind-deboss, which is where restraint actually shows.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated