Shigeo Nishimura
(Japan), b. 1947
Born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. While an undergraduate student in the Department of Commerce at Chuo University, he attended evening classes at the Setsu Mode Seminar to study sketching and watercolor painting. After graduating, Nishimura joined the Association to Help the Children of Vietnam, founded by Seizo Tashima and other artists, and participated in street exhibitions organized by the same group. In 1974, he published his first picture book, Kuzunohayama no Kitsune (Fox from Kuzunoha Mountains), using pigment for Japanese painting on washi (Japanese paper). He spent four years working on the picture book E de Miru Nihon no Rekishi (Japanese History in Pictures), which won the Picture Book Nippon Award Grand Prize in 1985. Other of the many awards he received include the Picture Book Nippon Award for Bokura no Chizuryoko (Our Map Travel) in 1990, the Sankei Juvenile Literature Publishing Culture Award for E de Yomu Hiroshima no Genbaku (Hiroshima: A Tragedy Never to Be Repeated) in 1996, and the Japan Picture Book Award for Gatagoto Gatagoto (Chug-chug Train) in 2000.
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