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.

襦袢 縹繻子地蝶花の丸模様
{襦袢 縹繻子地蝶花の丸模様 · 高木キヨウ氏寄贈 · 江戸時代・19世紀 / Edo period, 19th century · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Sukagi: Admiring the round pattern of the Chrysanthemum Butterfly's Cocoon [No additional information or interpretation added.] · Kokaki Kiyou-shi jyousan (This catalog was donated by Kokaki Kiyou)

In front of the Renjou-in Temple of the Seikawa Lineage (Renshou-in), a "Kyoto Gonokumusume-dojoji" (Kyoto Gonokumusume-dojoji) was enacted, and one of the five panels of the lining of the robe used in this performance was found. It was decorated with a round emblem full of chrysanthemums, cherries, shoubu (perennial peonies), and momiji (maple leaves) in embroidery. The mon (crest) of the Sankai Miygasaki family from the area of Katsushika was depicted as a butterfly motif in the embroidery. Currently, the left sleeve is missing. 20100308_h09

細川蓮性院(れんしょういん)の前で演じられた「京鹿子娘道成寺(きょうがのこむすめどうじょうじ)」に用いられた5領の襦袢の内の1領。椿(つばき)・桜・菖蒲(しょうぶ)・紅葉(もみじ)といった花の丸紋をたっぷりとした刺繍(ししゅう)であらわし、坂東三津江の家紋である茗荷(みょうが)を象(かたど)った蝶模様を刺繍であしらう。現状では左袖が失われている。20100308_h09

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The law
アイヌの人々の誇りが尊重される社会を実現するための施策の推進に関する法律
Act on Promoting Measures to Realise a Society in which the Pride of the Ainu People is Respected
平成三十一年法律第十六号 · Act No. 16 of 2019

Article 1 describes the Ainu as the indigenous people of the northern part of the Japanese archipelago and of Hokkaido in particular, and cites international circumstances concerning indigenous peoples as a reason for acting. It requires the government to set a basic policy, and lets municipalities draw up regional plans for approval by the Prime Minister.

The cool part. The definition in Article 2 is the part to sit with. Ainu culture means the Ainu language, and the ways of living, music, dance, crafts and other cultural products inherited among the Ainu, and cultural products developed from these. That final clause refuses to freeze the culture at a date, and treats what is made next as equally the thing being protected. The Act then reaches into trademark law, reducing or waiving registration fees for regional collective trademarks used by approved projects.

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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