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Photo: Paul Macapia
Kinkishoga (The Four Accomplishments)
Photo: Paul Macapia

Kinkishoga (The Four Accomplishments)

Datebeginning of the 17th century
Label TextAlong with playing the zither (kin) and the game go (ki), practicing calligraphy (sho) and appreciating painting (ga) form the “four accomplishments,” the activities of a cultivated Chinese scholar-gentleman. After having been appropriated in Japan, this subject was popular for door panels and folding screens during the 15th and 16th centuries. It saw some variations, such as in the rightmost panel here, where a Daoist immortal story was added.
Object number51.37.4
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japanese Art In The Seattle Art Museum, 1960. Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Decorative Style, 1961 (Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987. Shizuoka City, Japan, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Great Masters Of The Kano School, Apr. 12 - May 21, 1989. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Nov 1, 1998 - Mar. 1, 1999. Tokyo, 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 Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Feb. 8, 2020 - July 11, 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 44 Johns, Barbara, "Paul Horiuchi East and West", Universtiy of Washington Press, 2008, pp.53
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions68 1/2 x 55 in. (174 x 139.7 cm)
MediumFour sliding door panels; ink, color and gold on paper
Photo: Susan A. Cole
beginning of the 17th century
Object number: 51.37.1
Photo: Susan A. Cole
beginning of the 17th century
Object number: 51.37.2
Photo: Susan A. Cole
beginning of the 17th century
Object number: 51.37.3
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
beginning 17th century
Object number: 92.33.1
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
beginning 17th century
Object number: 92.33.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
beginning 17th century
Object number: 92.33.3
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
beginning 17th century
Object number: 92.33.4
Landscapes of the Four Seasons
late 1890s
Object number: 2010.41.11
19th century
Object number: 2022.15.1
Photo: Lehmann Maupin Gallery
2014
Object number: 2015.9