Evening Crescent Moon at Kôbe (Kôbe no Yoizuki), Taishô period, dated 1920

This impression of Evening Crescent Moon at Kôbe (Kôbe no Yoizuki), dated 1920, represents Goyo's mature engagement with nocturnal landscape as a printmaking subject. The title's inclusion of yoizuki — 'evening moon' — specifies the early-night hour when a crescent moon appears low in the western sky before full darkness descends. Goyo's printing of the sky likely employed multiple bokashi passes to modulate the transition from lingering twilight to deep night, a technique demanding precise registration across successive blocks. The harbor setting at Kobe would have provided geometric elements — piers, vessels, buildings — that anchor the composition against the atmospheric sky. As an impression contemporary with his final bijin-ga works, this print demonstrates the breadth of Goyo's ambitions even as his career was drawing to its premature close in 1921.