Japanese-style painter, Ukiyo-e print artist, genre painter. In 1888, he moved to Tokyo and studied painting under Taki Katei. He became a painter for the magazine Fuzoku Gaho in 1894 and painted about 1,300 pictures such as magazine covers, frontispieces, illustrations and the “Shinsen Tokyo Meisho Zue” series for nearly 20 years. He is famous as a news painter. He submitted works to the Bunten exhibition (annual art exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education), the Teiten exhibition (the Japan Art Academy Exhibition), and elsewhere. He also made many genre paintings.