Evening Glow at Nojima (Nojima no sekisho), No. 7 from the series "Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kanazawa hakkei)"
c. 1716/36
Medium
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
Dimensions
33.7 × 16.2 cm (13 1/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
88895
Art Historical Context
**Evening Glow at Nojima (Nojima no sekisho)**, No. 7 from Nishimura Shigenaga's *Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kan hakkei)*, captures poetic beauty of Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture around 1716–1736.igenaga, an early ukiyo-e master active in Edo (modern Tokyo), drew inspiration from traditional Chinese landscape motifs like the "Eight Views of-Xiang." This narrow-format print spotlights Nojima's checkpoint bathed in a warm evening glow, evoking the serene "floating world" ethos of everyday poetry amid nature. Printed as a *hosoban urushi-e*—a slim, hand-colored woodblock measuring just 33.7 × 16.2 c...
About the Artist
Nishimura Shigenaga · 1690–1758
Nishimura Shigenaga (c. 1697–1756) was a pioneering Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker born in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), where he initially worked as a landlord in the Tōriabura-chō district before relocating to Kanda-Sakumachō to operate a bookshop. Self-taught with no known formal teacher, he immersed himself in art around 1719, drawing early inspiration from the Torii school's yakusha-e (actor portraits...