Eikadō, Senkadō And Hyakuju

Place: Edo (Modern Tokyo)

Death: 1756

Biography:

Nishimura Shigenaga was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, born in Edo (modern Tokyo) around 1697 and died in 1756. He worked as a landlord in Tōriabura-chō before moving to the Kanda district, where he ran a bookshop and taught himself art. He is not known to have had a teacher. His work began to appear around 1719 and he worked in a variety of genres and formats, including yakusha-e portraits of kabuki actors, landscapes, kachō-e pictures of scenes of nature, and historical scenes. He made a number of uki-e 'floating pictures' incorporating geometric perspective. His better-known work includes the series Fifty-four Sheets of Genji and the Picture Book of Edo Souvenirs. He produced some of the earliest ukiyo-e landscape prints and had a strong influence on later artists such as Suzuki Harunobu and Ishikawa Toyonobu.