Nihonga painter, printmaker, kyoka poet. Kōhō was a student of Ogata Gekkō and from a former samurai home in Kanda. He began by studying history painting and paintings of beautiful women, providing illustrations for the Chūō Newspaper. In 1895, he has a work in the 4th exhibition of the Nihon seishun kaiga kyōkai (Association of Young Japanese Painters) with a picture of a dancing doll receiving a third level certificate of merit. In the second exhibition of the Nihon kaiga kyōkai (Japan Painting Association) of 1897, he entered a painting of an Exorcism Ceremony at Kameido Shrine, achieving a second class certificate of merit. In the first Bunten of 1907 he received a bronze medal. In the late Meiji and early Taisho periods, he worked with the publisher Hasegawa Takejirō creating shin-hanga. After that he left painting associations, moved to the Shitayaku neighborhood of Tokyo, and turned to writing kyōka poetry.