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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.

白磁稜花小鉢
{白磁稜花小鉢 · 九州国立博物館 · 江戸時代 17世紀後半 · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
White magnetic sand flower in small pots.

Iwadare-yaki white magnetic. thought to be from the late 17th century, based on its shape, a small bowl with a pointed tip and eight sides. A similar piece with a seven-paneled rim is held at Saga Prefectural Kyushu Ceramic Culture Museum. The inscription on the lid reads "Morning Face." Evidence s…

<p>伊万里焼の白磁。先端が尖った8弁の稜花形の小鉢で、17世紀後半の製品と思われる。1650-60年代製とされる類品が佐賀県立九州陶磁文化館に所蔵されており、こちらの口縁は7弁である。共箱に墨書で「朝顔ちょく」とある。江戸時代に本作品のような器形が「朝顔」と呼ばれていたことが示唆され、貴重な資料である。</p>

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The law
美術品の美術館における公開の促進に関する法律
Act on Promotion of Public Exhibition of Works of Art in Museums
平成十年法律第九十九号 · Act No. 99 of 1998

A statute built to coax privately held work onto public walls. An owner registers a piece with the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs, then contracts with a museum to display it. Article 2 defines a work of art broadly, as paintings, sculpture, crafts and other tangible cultural products that are movable, which is the legal way of saying anything you could carry out of the house.

The cool part. The terms are the interesting part. Article 2 requires the public display contract to run for five years or more, and to contain a clause stating that the parties may not give notice of cancellation. You cannot lend a masterpiece for the tax treatment and then reclaim it when the market turns. Japan concluded the barrier to seeing art was never storage. It was ownership, and the fix was a contract you cannot walk out of.

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.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated