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A Game of Go, from the Four Accomplishments

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

A Game of Go, from the Four Accomplishments

beginning 17th century

Kano Takanobu

Japanese, 1571 - 1618

These paintings were originally sliding door panels at Ryoanji Temple, which is famed for its rock garden. They are part of the set that depicts the four accomplishments—music, playing go, calligraphy, and painting—elegant pastimes for scholar-gentlemen.
Sliding screen; ink, color and gold on paper
68 1/4 x 45 1/8 in. (173.4 x 114.6cm)
Gift of Carmen Christensen
92.33.4
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryTokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view July 16 - Dec. 5, 2021].
Published ReferencesKawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 45

Matsushima, Masato. "Kyoto from Inside and Outside: Scenes on Panels and Folding Screens." Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 2013, cat. no. 16, illus. pp. 182-183, detail pp. 184-185

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