Nomura Yoshimitsu was born in 1870 in Kyôto into a family of Kyôto artists. The young Yoshimitsu learned traditional Japanese painting from his father and grandfather. In 1891, like many artists of the Meiji period, he explored Western art through a visit to Kyôto by a French painter. In 1931, he created a series of six prints in the Shin-hanga style for the publisher Satô Shotarô: Famous Places of Kyôto (Kyôraku meishô), which were exhibited at the major exhibition of Japanese prints in Toledo, Ohio, USA in 1936.
