Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697(?)-1756)
Tea House Beside the Kamo River in Kyoto1740s
Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697(?)-1756) designed this in the 1740s, aged about 43. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. More about this work
About this work
Nishimura Shigenaga (Japanese, 1697(?)-1756) designed this in the 1740s, aged about 43. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
How it was made
- Colour woodblock print
- In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.
Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock prints of the floating world: actors, courtesans, landscapes and the sea.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Cleveland Museum of Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1920.515
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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