The eight views of the lake areas in Hunan Province, China, have been popular themes in art for a long time. This major work features motifs such as plover birds on a broad expanse of flat sand, returning sails at a distant harbor, clear skies over mountain city, autumn moon over Dongting Lake, rainy night on Xiang River, temple bells at dusk, and fishermen's evening glow. This piece was created around the middle of the 50s.
中国の湖南省洞庭湖周辺の８つの景色は、古来、画題として好まれた。広大な景観の中に、平沙落雁・遠浦帰帆・山市晴嵐・江天暮雪・洞庭秋月・瀟湘夜雨（しとしとと降る夜の雨）・煙寺晩鐘・漁村夕照というモチーフを散りばめた本作は、等伯50代半ば頃の力作。
View the original at Japan Search →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 A motif small enough to blind-deboss, which is where restraint actually shows.
Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated