Nishimura Shigenaga

In this Japanese name, the family name is Nishimura.

Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese: 西村 重長; c. 1697 – 23 July 1756) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist.

Shigenaga was born c. 1697 in Edo (modern Tokyo). He worked as a landlord in Tōriabura-chō before moving to the Kanda district, where he ran a bookshop and taught himself art; his work began to appear c. 1719. He worked in a variety of genres and formats. His earlier work tended to be yakusha-e portraits of kabuki actors in the style of the Torii school; his later work is in an idiom more his own, incorporating the influence of Okumura Masanobu and Nishikawa Sukenobu.

Shigenaga's better-known work includes the series Fifty-four Sheets of Genji, a collaborative series with Torii Kiyomasu II in c. 1730–35; and the Picture Book of Edo Souvenirs in 1753. He produced some of the earliest ukiyo-e landscape prints; in 1727, his was the first set of prints of Lake Biwa. His work had a strong influence on later artists such as Suzuki Harunobu and Ishikawa Toyonobu, who may have been students of Shigenaga's; Toyonobu may have been Nishimura Shigenobu, Shigenaga's most prominent student.

• Prints by Shigenaga
• Nishimura Shigenaga - Untitled - Google Art Project.jpg
• Nishimura Shigenaga - Komachi Washing the Poem-Papers - Google Art Project.jpg
• Nishimura Shigenaga - Four Seasons – Autumn Moon above the Reception Room.jpg
• 'Children at Play' by Nishimura Shigenaga, mid 1750s, Honolulu Museum of Art, 15581.JPG
• Nishimura Shigenaga - 3 Songs by 3 Pairs of Lovebirds (Sanbuku-tsui hiyoku sankyoku).jpg

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons