Surname Hasegawa; personal names Naraya Bunkichi and Naraya Tokubei; first a pupil of the Shijô painter Ueda Kôchô, later of the Edo artist Utagawa Kunisada, and Shigeharu and Sadamasu [Kunimasu] in Osaka; address in Osaka Andôjimachi Naniwabachisuji and Horie Ichinogawa; adopted briefly by the publisher Tenmaya Kihei (taking the personal name Senzô); also closely linked with Hirosada, but apparently not as a pupil.

A prolific artist by the 1840s; beside theatrical portraits, he later designed kachô-e and fûkei-ga (including small-format copies of designs by the Edo artist Hiroshige).

Pupils included Sadamasa; Sadaharu; Nobuhiro; Konobu I; Konobu II.