Qin and Calligraphy - 100 Delights, mid 18th century, Yanagisawa Kien, Japanese, 1706 - 1758, 31 1/2 × 6 15/16 in. ( × cm) (image)57 9/16 × 7 13/16 in. ( × cm) (mount, without roller), Ink on paper, Japan, 18th century, The Chinese literati favored four accomplishments (Jap. kinki shoga) as elegant pastimes: playing the qin (seven-stringed lute), playing Chinese chess, practicing calligraphy, and painting. This theme was also taken on by Japanese literati artists, and the words kinki shoga were symbolically equated with the nature of a scholar

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