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.

青白磁経筒
{青白磁経筒 · 京都国立博物館 Kyoto National Museum · 宋時代・12世紀~13世紀 / Song ・12th~13th · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Blue-white magnetic tubes.

Chinese ceramic tubes discovered in Kyushu, Japan, are common. They may have been made in a kiln in the southern part of China, but this is uncertain. Additionally, some believe they were made as export goods for the Japanese market based on the lack of excavation records in China.

中国製の陶磁器経筒は、九州の経塚から発見されることが多い。中国南方系のいずれかの窯で焼かれたものと考えられるが、明確ではない。また、中国での出土例がないことを根拠に、日本からの注文品とみる見解もある。

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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.

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