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Parody of the Four Accomplishments: Music, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting


Mitate Kinki shoga zu
見立琴棋書画図(七美人図)
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
first half of Kansei era (1789 - 1801)

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 128.4 x 54 cm (50 9/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4630
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #142; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 242
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum