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Art Forgotten

Art from public museum collections. A mismatched real Japanese law, and some other factoids.

Nothing on these cards is written by a model. Every description is the museum's own catalogue record or curator text, and every object links to its original. Each law carries its official number and links to e-Gov 法令検索, the Japanese government's statute database.

Nested Boxes with Chrysanthemums (inner box)
{Nested Boxes with Chrysanthemums (inner box) · Maker unrecorded · early 1900s · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0}

lacquer · Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) · Overall: 0.7 x 5.8 x 4.2 cm (1/4 x 2 5/16 x 1 5/8 in.) · Japanese Art

View the original at Cleveland Museum of Art →
The law
古都における歴史的風土の保存に関する特別措置法
Act on Preservation of Historical Landscape in Ancient Capitals
昭和四十一年法律第一号 · Act No. 1 of 1966

Protects not buildings but the setting around them: the hills, approaches and sightlines of Kyoto, Nara and Kamakura.

The cool part. It legislates the view. You may own the land and still be told what the horizon behind a temple is allowed to look like.

Verify at e-Gov 法令検索 →

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

Description source: museum catalogue record — not generated