Printmaker and book designer. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture; his given name was Kiyoshi. He signed first as Mugaku, Shimizu and Suiho, and took the name Goyo in 1903. He came to Tokyo in 1899 and studied nihonga under Hashimoto Gaho, then entered the Western painting course of the Tokyo Fine Arts School. He had a gift for design as well, and made the bindings for Natsume Soseki’s I Am a Cat and for works by Mori Ogai and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro. In 1907 he showed the oil painting Hagoromo at the first Bunten. In 1915 he met Watanabe Shozaburo, an ukiyo-e dealer then working to preserve the traditional woodblock craft, and published Woman at Her Toilette, his first print, fusing ukiyo-e with Western pictorial means. In his last years, at Watanabe’s urging, he joined the shin-hanga movement, making the quiet, beautiful figures of women represented by Woman Combing Her Hair. Other works include Woman in a Long Undergarment and Woman After the Bath.