Cultivated Leisure December 8, 2008

Painting, calligraphy, playing the zither (qin), and "weiji," a board game of strategy best known under the Japanese name, "go," were respected as primary accomplishments of cultured gentlemen in China through late imperial times. This exhibition includes Chinese paintings, ceramics, and other decorative arts that represent all of these activities, pursued individually or together, by women as well as men, and by figures from Chinese mythology and history.