Enduring Splendor - A Special Exhibition of Mr. Peng Kai-dong's Bequest

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Western year	Years of Age	Events
1912	0 year	He was born on October, 5 in Hsin-chu, Taiwan.
1913	3 months	In January, his father went missing after an accident at sea.
1915, 16	3 years /4 years	His mother remarried. The incident has a long term effect on his psychological development.
1919	7 years	He dropped out from school after one and half years education. He then worked at a snooker club and decided to go to Tokyo to become a professional player there.
1927	15 years	A Japanese Dentist took him to Tokyo, Japan.
1928	16 years	He worked at a snooker club through Mr. Akita's introduction.
1931	19 years	He was married with Ms. Lee Ai-yu. He returned to Taipei because of his wife's illness and established a snooker shop selling snooker materials.
1934	22 years	His first wife, Ms. Lee Ai-yu died.
1938	26 years	He was remarried with Ms. Nagashima. He renamed himself as Nita Munachi
1939	27 years	He returned to Taiwan. He taught officers in The Taiwanese Governor's Office playing snooker, as well as set up a business supplying goods for Japanese Naval Forces.
1941	29 years	He established a company, Nita Enterprise Limited, for shipping unapproved raw materials to Japan.
1945	33 years	After the Second World War, he was not allowed to return to Taiwan as he was classified as Class B war criminal. He opened a jewellery antique shop in Ginza, Tokyo, and established good connections with his fellow colleagues.
1946-50	34 years – 38 years	He closed down his antique business, and started running restaurants.
1950	38 years	He first acquisition of Buddhist art. He acquired a standing Buddha sculpture, Sui Dynasty, and a piece of Dunhuang Buddhist painting (designated as Important Cultural Property).
1952, 53	40 years /41 years	He was not allowed to go abroad for three years due to violation of financial regulations. He decided to limit his collection solely on Buddhist images after this event.
1955	43 years	He bought a plot of land to construct a building for art exhibition.
1956	44 years	He acquired a piece of Degas' big painting and a piece of Renoir's painting,'A girl with a hat', in Paris.
1960	48 years	He acquired a piece of gilt bronze, Shakyamuni , Tai-ho 1^st year, Northern Wei dynasty.
1964	52 years	He opened up international night clubs, coffee shops and Nita Gallery for the event of Tokyo Olympic 1964.
1965	53 years	He bought a standing Bodhisattva gilt bronze. In its inscription, it is said that the sculpture was donated by one Mr. Peng in the second year of Ta-yeh era of Sui Dynasty. The Sculpture has since been worshiped in the Peng family ancestry altar.
1970	58 years	He exchanged a piece of Korin hanging scroll and a piece of stone Buddhist sculpture with the Nezu Museum, Japan for three pieces of gilt bronze seated Buddha from Ming Dynasty.
1970	58 years	He acquired a wooden standing bodhisattva sculpture from Heian Period, Japan (designated as Important Cultural Property)
1971	59 years	He sold out business of night club, coffee shop and Nita Gallery. He started up his property business and acquired properties in Harajuku and Ginza area.
1980	68 years	He acquired a seated Buddha Shakyamuni, Tai-ho era, Northern Wei dynasty after the second world war.
1981	69 years	He was rated the thirteen richest person in Japan by The Nikkei Newspaper.
1987	75 years	In October, a special exhibition of gilt bronze sculptures based on Mr. Peng's collection was launched in the National Palace Museum.
1992	80 years	He gave six major parts of his art collection to his three sons.
1996	84 years	He sold 32 pieces of gilt bronzes to the National Palace Museum.
1997	85 years	He sold two big Japanese wooden sculptures and one Buddhist painting to the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan which are displayed in the newly built Heisei Hall (Heiseikan), The Tokyo National Museum.
1998	86 years	Nita Groups and MSIKARU Company in Osaka were merged.
2003	91 years	He donated seven pieces of gilt bronze sculptures to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA.
2004	93 years	He donated 358 pieces of gilt bronze objects to the National Palace Museum. A special exhibition,"The Casting of Religion," was based on his donation and organized in the same year. He also donated a piece of gilt bronze sculpture, Northern Wei dynasty and painting of Tun-huang, Tang dynasty (designated as Important Cultural Property, Japan) to Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan.
2006	95 years	In September, he donated a piece of four-sided stele to the National Palace Museum. He died on Nov 24. In his will, he again donated 48 pieces of gilt bronzes to the National Palace Museum.
2008		An exhibition 'Enduring Splendor – A special exhibition of Mr. Peng Kai-dong's bequest' was launched in honor of Mr. Peng lifelong contribution to Buddhist Art.