Nishimura Shigenaga
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).[1] He worked as a landlord in Tōriabura-chō[2] before moving to the Kanda district, where he ran a bookshop and taught himself art;[1] he is not known to have had a teacher.[3] His work began to appear c. 1719. He worked in a variety of genres and formats.[1] 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.[2] Other genres he worked in include landscapes, kachō-e pictures of scenes of nature, and historical scenes.[3] He made a number of uki-e "floating pictures" incorporating geometric perspective. The number of uki-e he produced was second only to Masanobu, who asserted himself the originator of the technique.[4]
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.[1] He produced some of the earliest ukiyo-e landscape prints; in 1727, his was the first set of prints of Lake Biwa.[5] His work had a strong influence on later artists such as Suzuki Harunobu and Ishikawa Toyonobu,[1] who may have been students of Shigenaga's;[6] Toyonobu may have been Nishimura Shigenobu, Shigenaga's most prominent student.[2]
- Prints by Shigenaga
-
-
-
-
-
References
- ^ a b c d e Marks 2012, p. 38.
- ^ a b c Michener 1954, p. 396.
- ^ a b Japan Ukiyo-e Association 1982, p. 70.
- ^ Japan Ukiyo-e Association 1982, p. 72.
- ^ King 2010, p. 45.
- ^ Marks 2012, p. 38; Michener 1954, p. 396.
Works cited
- Japan Ukiyo-e Association (1982). Genshoku Ukiyo-e Dai-Hyakka Jiten 原色 浮世絵大百科事典 第6巻 [Original Colour Grand Ukiyo-e Encyclopaedia]. Vol. 6. Taishūkan Publishing.
- King, James (2010). Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727–1960. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-0317-0.
- Marks, Andreas (2012). Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680–1900. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0599-7.
- Michener, James Albert (1954). The Floating World. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0873-0.
External links
Media related to Nishimura Shigenaga at Wikimedia Commons
- v
- t
- e
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kinuta_2.jpg/160px-Kinuta_2.jpg)
of 17–19th centuries
- Asayama school
- Eishi school
- Furuyama school
- Harukawa Eizan school
- Harunobu school
- Hasegawa school
- Hishikawa school
- Hokusai school
- Ippitsusai Bunchō school
- Ishikawa Toyonobu school
- Kaigetsudō school
- Katsukawa school
- Kawamata school
- Keisai Eisen school
- Kitagawa school
- Kitao school
- Miyagawa school
- Nishikawa school
- Nishimura school
- Nishimura Shigenaga
- Ishikawa Toyonobu
- Suzuki Harunobu
- Okumura school
- Ōoka school
- Osaka school
- Ryūkōsai school
- Shigenobu school
- Shunkōsai Fukushū school
- Torii school
- Toyohara school
- Utagawa school
- Utagawa Toyoharu
- Utagawa Toyohiro
- Utagawa Toyokuni I
- Utagawa Kunimasa
- Utagawa Kunisada
- Utagawa Kunisada II
- Utagawa Kunisada III
- Utagawa Sadahide
- Utagawa Kunimasu I
- Utagawa Toyokuni II
- Utagawa Kuniyasu
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi
- Ryusai Shigeharu
- Utagawa Yoshitsuya
- Utagawa Yoshitora
- Kawanabe Kyōsai
- Utagawa Yoshiiku
- Utagawa Yoshitoshi
- Utagawa Yoshifuji
- Utagawa Yoshifusa
- Utagawa Kuniteru I
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Utagawa Hiroshige II
- Utagawa Hiroshige III
- Utagawa Hirokage
- Utagawa Sadafusa
- Adachi Ginkō
- List of Utagawa school members
- Not associated with any school
artists and movements
- Shin-hanga
- Sosaku-hanga
- Azechi Umetarō
- Eiichi Kotozuka
- Un'ichi Hiratsuka
- Itow Takumi
- Kitaoka Fumio
- Yasuhide Kobashi
- Sakuichi Fukazawa
- Masao Maeda
- Senpan Maekawa
- Maki Haku
- Matsubara Naoko
- Yoshitoshi Mori
- Shikō Munakata
- Tetsuya Noda
- Gihachiro Okuyama
- Kōshirō Onchi
- Kiichi Okamoto
- Saitō Kiyoshi
- Sekino Jun'ichirō
- Toko Shinoda
- Hiroyuki Tajima
- Sadao Watanabe
- Kanae Yamamoto
- Shōzaburō Watanabe
- Hodaka Yoshida
- Tōshi Yoshida
- Suwa Kanenori
- Fujimori Shizuo
- Reika Iwami
- Tadashige Ono
- Chosei Kawakami
- Others
- Kohno Michisei
- Tadashi Nakayama
- Fujio Yoshida
- Japanese painting
- Rinpa school
- Kanō school
- Akita ranga
- Hara school
- Hasegawa school
- Kyoto school
- Nanpin school
- Nanga
- Nihonga
- Shijō school
- Mochizuki school
- Yōga
- Ukiyo-e influenced non-Japanese art
- Japonisme
- Japonaiserie (Van Gogh)
- Impressionism
- Anglo-Japanese style
- Post-impressionism
- Art Nouveau
- Ligne claire
![]() | This Japanese artist–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e