Ukiyo-e artist and nihonga painter. Born in Kyobashi, Tokyo; his given name was Taro. He also signed Kendo and Shinji. He studied ukiyo-e under Migita Toshihide and the Maruyama manner under Kawabata Gyokusho. He excelled at sensuous bijinga and at sumo pictures, and worked as an illustrator for magazines and newspapers. In 1901 he founded the Ugokai with Kaburaki Kiyokata, Nakayama Koto and others, and helped the new print to flourish. He illustrated Izumi Kyoka’s novels and magazines such as Shin-shosetsu. As an illustrator he was said to be no less able than Kiyokata, and his sense of the real endeared him to his readers. His illustrations for newspaper serials — Yanagawa Shun’yo’s Nasanu Naka and Kikuchi Kan’s Shinju Fujin — are well known.