The four accomplishments celebrated by the Chinese scholar-literati elite as elegant pastimes : playing the qin (Jp; kin 琴); playing Chinese chess or qi (Jp: ki 棋); practicing calligraphy (Ch: shu, Jp: sho 書); and painting (Ch: hua, Jp: ga 画). They probably arrived in Japan in the 14th century and, as a painting subject, were extremely popular. The painting by the Yuan period artist Ren Renfa (Jp: Nin Jinpatsu 任仁発) now in the Tokyo National Museum, probably typifies Chinese paintings of kinkishoga first known to Japanese. The earliest Japanese depiction is unknown, but according to the Zokushi sishū 続翠詩集, Kōsei Ryōha 江西竜派 (1374-1446) inscribed a poem about kinkishoga on a painted fan. Among Muromachi period paintings, a pair of screens in the Ryōkōin 龍光院 and another attributed to Sesshū 雪舟 (1420-1506) are well known. Large numbers of works exist from later times, including notable examples by *Kano-ha 狩野派 painters Kano Motonobu 狩野元信 (1543, Reiun'in 霊雲院), Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1556, Jukōin 聚光院), and Kano Tan'yū 狩野探幽 (Nagoyajō 名古屋城), as well as by Kaihō Yūshō 海北友松 (1599, Kenninji 建仁寺; etc.). Yūshō's many paintings of the theme sometimes feature Chinese court beauties accompanying the scholars or engaging in the four accomplishments themselves. As with many other Chinese themes in Japanese painting, the original values attached to kinkishoga paintings gradually diminished in this case to a generalized image of the scholar in nature. *Ukiyo-e 浮世絵 artists created parodies *mitate-e 見立絵 of kinkishoga, typically with stylish courtesans in the place of Chinese scholars.