The exhibition presents selected works of Japanese and Chinese art from the Museum's collection, as well as recent gifts and new acquisitions in honor of Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University Graduate School Class of 1975, the Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, who will retire this spring after twenty-five years of teaching. An important acquisition of Japanese art by the museum in 2007, Illustrated Gleanings from the Legends of Past Virtues (Shuikotokuden-e), ca 1310-20, will be re-credited as a museum purchase in honor of Professor Shimizu. A pivotal scene of an illustrated biography of the founder of Japan's Pure Land School of Buddhism, Honen-bo Genku (1133-1212), the painting in a way parallels Shimizu's role as a leading scholar in the field of Japanese art history and as a mentor for generations of students.