The earthenware has a sharp carving of lotus petals on its surface and lid. The body is particularly white, with a very thin green glaze applied. Such earthenware and white glaze are characteristic of the pottery style of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and similar examples have been excavated from tombs in Hebei and Henan provinces.
胴と蓋の表に鋭い浮彫りで蓮弁文があらわされています。胎はきわめて白く、ごく薄い草緑色の釉が掛けられています。こうした器形や胎、釉薬の特徴は、南北朝時代の青磁の作風を示しており、河北省や河南省周辺にある貴人墓の出土品に類例も知られています。
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 Two-colour foil on uncoated stock gets you most of this at production cost.
Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated