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.

男衾三郎絵巻(模本)
{男衾三郎絵巻(模本) · 狩野晴川院養信ほか模  · 江戸時代・文化13年(1816)、原本:鎌倉時代・13世紀 / Edo period, dated 1816 (Bunka 13) · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Male Oshiro's Scroll (Model) · Chiyo Kaganoo Yasuke and Others' Collection.

In the space between the first and second parts, a painting of a servant not present in the original work was discovered. The phrase "although not visible in the original, a painting of this servant exists in another template and can be inserted" was found during the process of copying. It is believed that the scene of the servant drawing water for the wife and daughter of Jikimeiro, which should have been in the sixth scroll of the Mansetsu scrolls by Jikimeiro, was replaced with this painting.

第一段と第二段の間に原本にはない厩の図が確認される模本。「原本には見えないが、別の模本にこの図があるので挿入する」との模写時の識語(しきご)がある。吉見二郎の妻と娘の慈悲が厩の水を汲む場面とともに、本来は男衾三郎絵巻第六段に位置していたと考えられる。

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The law
京都国際文化観光都市建設法
Kyoto International Culture Tourism City Construction Act
昭和二十五年法律第二百五十一号 · Act No. 251 of 1950

A national statute written for one city. Article 1 recites the beauty of Kyoto and its historically, culturally and artistically important position in the world, and gives two purposes: to raise international culture and serve the ideal of permanent world peace, and to contribute to the economic recovery of Japan. It was passed five years after the war ended.

The cool part. Article 3 lets Kyoto designate culture tourism preservation districts and, by ordinance, prohibit building, rebuilding, removal, changes to the shape of the land and the cutting of bamboo, trees and stone, with compensation for ordinary loss. Then Article 4 does something statutes almost never do. It places a duty on the mayor personally: in the spirit of local autonomy, and with the cooperation of residents, the mayor must engage in ceaseless activity to complete the city. Nara received its own Act, number 250, the day before.

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Use it A motif small enough to blind-deboss, which is where restraint actually shows.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated