; (born April 28, 1936) is a Japanese

manga artist A manga artist, also known as a mangaka (), is a Cartoonist, comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the indus ...

from

Izumiōtsu 260px, Supermarket in Izumiōtsu 260px, Kirara Town housing complex in Izumiōtsu is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 73,767 in 34920 households and a population density of 5400 persons per km2. The t ...

. Nishimura's best-known work is the ''

yonkoma is a comic strip format that generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom. They also sometimes run right-to-left horizontally or use a hybrid 2×2 style, depending on the layout requiremen ...

'' comedy , which earned Nishimura the 1985

Bungeishunjū Manga Award The was an annual award established in 1955 and given out by Bungeishunjū in Japan for gag, , one-panel, and satirical manga. The award was also given out for works considered the magnum opus of manga creators. Past winners of the award inclu ...

and the Japanese Cartoonists' Association's Excellence Prize for 2000.

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1936 births Manga artists Living people People from Izumiōtsu, Osaka 20th-century Japanese artists {{manga-artist-stub