Accumulating CultureWinner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History By the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting works of art, particularly scrolls of calligraphy and paintings done by known artists. By the time of Emperor Huizong (1082 1135) of the Song dynasty (960 1279), both scholars and the imperial court were cataloguing their collections and also collecting ancient bronzes and