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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.

源氏物語図屏風
{源氏物語図屏風 · 伝土佐光則筆 · 江戸時代・17世紀 / Edo period, 17th century · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}

The "Tales of Genji" scrolls have handwritten articles extracted from each chapter, which the domestic government recorded on colored paper. The painting on the scene is pasted as a screen decoration. The artist who may be considered for the painting is Tosa Yoshitoshi, who is a traditional painter of the Tosa School, responsible for producing paintings for the imperial court. The intricacy of the drawing is notable.

『源氏物語』各帖を抜き書きした文章を公家が記した色紙と、その場面の絵画を屏風に貼り付けている。絵の作者と考えられる土佐光則は、宮廷の絵画制作を担う伝統的な流派である土佐派の絵師で、描写の細やかさが際立っている。

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The law
屋外広告物法
Outdoor Advertising Act
昭和二十四年法律第百八十九号 · Act No. 189 of 1949

Article 1 gives three grounds for regulating a sign: forming good landscape, maintaining scenic character, and preventing danger to the public. Article 3 then lets a prefecture prohibit outdoor advertising outright, by ordinance, in named categories of place.

The cool part. Read the list in Article 3 and it stops being an advertising law. The places where signage can be banned include landscape districts, scenic districts, preservation districts for groups of traditional buildings, the surroundings of designated Important Cultural Properties, and historic sites, places of scenic beauty and natural monuments. The statute protects the view by removing the sentences written across it.

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