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

Shigenaga was bornc. 1697 inEdo (modern Tokyo).^[1] He worked as a landlord in Tōriabura-chō^[2] before moving to theKanda 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 appearc. 1719. He worked in a variety of genres and formats.[1] His earlier work tended to beyakusha-e portraits ofkabuki actors in the style of theTorii school; his later work is in an idiom more his own, incorporating the influence ofOkumura Masanobu andNishikawa Sukenobu.^[2] Other genres he worked in include landscapes,kachō-e pictures of scenes of nature, and historical scenes.^[3] He made a number ofuki-e "floating pictures" incorporatinggeometric perspective. The number ofuki-e he produced was second only to Masanobu, who asserted himself the originator of the technique.^[4]

Shigenaga's better-known work includes the seriesFifty-four Sheets of Genji, a collaborative series withTorii Kiyomasu II inc. 1730–35; and thePicture 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 ofLake Biwa.^[5] His work had a strong influence on later artists such asSuzuki Harunobu andIshikawa Toyonobu,^[1] who may have been students of Shigenaga's;^[6] Toyonobu may have been Nishimura Shigenobu, Shigenaga's most prominent student.^[2]

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