Hashiguchi Goyō - Woman after a Bath [1915]

Hashiguchi Goyō - Woman after a Bath [1915], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Hashiguchi Goyō (December 21, 1880 - February 24, 1921) was an artist in Japan. Hashiguchi was born Hashiguchi Kiyoshi in Kagoshima Prefecture. His father Hashiguchi Kanemizu was a samurai and amateur painter in the Shijo style. His father hired a teacher in the Kano style of painting in 1899 when Kiyoshi was only ten. Kiyoshi took the name of Goyo while attending the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, from which he graduated best in his class in 1905. The name Goyo was chosen because of his fondness for the five needle pine in his father's garden. In late 1920, Hashiguchi's latent health problems escalated into meningitis. He supervised his last print Hot Spring Hotel from his death bed, but could not finish it personally. He died in February 1921.

[Colour woodblock print. 40.1 x 26.1 cm]