This flower vase has two pairs of butterflies forming low-relief roundels, one on each side. The butterflies face each other, one positioned above and the other below, their antennae curling up to a centrally placed floral motif. In the spaces between the pairs of insects, additional raised floral designs are set within vinelike extensions reminiscent of open metalwork banners and canopy adornments in Buddhist temples. The lip and the foot of the vase remain white, and the thinning of the green glaze within the higher-relief portions of the body decoration accentuates the designs. This work, like the sweets bowl CMA 2022.232, has a box lid attribution to Yohei III by Yohei IV. His inscription is dated to the autumn of 1919.
View the original at Cleveland Museum of Art →It protects not the buildings but the setting that holds them. Article 2 defines historic landscape as land where structures and remains of historical significance form a single whole with the surrounding natural environment, which is the legal way of saying the hills, the approaches and the sightlines. The ancient capitals are Kyoto, Nara and Kamakura, plus any other municipality added by Cabinet Order. The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism designates a preservation area; city planning then carves a Special Preservation District over its core, and inside that district an owner needs permission from the prefectural governor to build, to fell timber, or to change the shape of the ground.
The cool part. It legislates the view, and then it pays for it. Article 10 requires the prefecture to compensate an owner who suffers loss because permission was refused. Article 12 goes further: where refusal seriously impairs the use of the land, the owner can require the prefecture to buy it, at market value. So the state does not merely tell you what the horizon behind a temple may look like. It agrees to purchase the land rather than let the skyline change. Two more things worth knowing. The prefecture must physically sign the district boundary, and a landowner may not obstruct the sign without just cause. And the ministry holding the pen is Transport, not Culture.
Verify at e-Gov 法令検索 →Use it The border is the idea. Use it as an edge treatment and leave the centre empty.
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