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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.

色絵朝顔瓢箪図鶏鈕大香炉
{色絵朝顔瓢箪図鶏鈕大香炉 · 九谷陶器会社 · 明治時代・19世紀 / Meiji ・19th · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Color painting: Portraits in clay pots and chicken vessels. Large incense burners.

Kawatachi Pottery Company was established by Fukuhara Sei, a former samurai from the Daigo-ji domain, in 1887. Initially, artists such as Takesumi Sōkaku, Hakune Ippitsu, and the first Soetsu Yanagi participated. However, after a fire in 1895, the company's management shifted, and it was transferred to Norisuke Yasui around the Meiji 28th year (1905). This incense burner was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1906.

九谷陶器会社は、大聖寺藩の元藩士であった飛鳥井清が明治十二年に設立した製陶会社。初期には竹内吟秋・浅井一毫・初代諏訪蘇山らも参加したが、明治十六年の火災以降経営が傾き、明治二十四年頃、永井直衛に譲渡された。この香炉は、明治二十六年のシカゴ万国博覧会出品作品。

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The law
景観法
Landscape Act
平成十六年法律第百十号 · Act No. 110 of 2004

Article 1 states the aim as a beautiful and dignified national land, and it covers not only cities but farming, mountain and fishing villages. Inside a landscape planning area, Article 16 requires advance notification of new building, extension, rebuilding, relocation, and any repair or alteration that changes the exterior. Landscape Districts go further and impose direct restrictions on the form and design of buildings.

The cool part. Read Article 16 to the end of the sentence. A change of colour is listed alongside new construction as an act you must notify. Repainting your building is, in law, the same category of event as putting up a new one. This is the machinery behind the muted shopfronts of Kyoto. The brown coffee-shop sign is not a marketing choice, it is compliance.

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Use it The border is the idea. Use it as an edge treatment and leave the centre empty.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated