Nihonga painter and printmaker of the Taisho and Showa eras. Born in Fukuoka. He studied first under the nanga painter Ueda Tekko, then moved to Tokyo to learn bijinga from Kaburaki Kiyokata. O-Kiku of Nagasaki was accepted at the fifth Teiten in 1924, and further bijinga on Nagasaki subjects were accepted after it; he has been known as a painter of beautiful women ever since. In 1927 he took up the traditional woodblock print with Watanabe, who published his series Kindai Jiseisho (Manners of the Modern Age). In 1933 A Cool Evening at the Kitei, a portrait of the singer Ichimaru, won a special prize. From 1936 he showed at the Bunten and the Shin-Bunten without going before the jury. Among the fine works he left are Tipsy and Making Up.