Female Bather Kneeling to Wash and Comb Her Hair, Taishô period, dated 1918 (7th month of Taishô 9)

This print, catalogued as from the seventh month of Taishô 9 (1920), depicts a woman in a kneeling position engaged in the dual act of washing and combing her hair — a pose that involves the figure in a self-directed physical process observed from a close vantage. The kneeling posture compresses the figure into the lower portion of the composition, exposing the back and nape of the neck, areas Goyo rendered with exceptional tonal subtlety using layered printing. Hair, whether wet and gathered or being drawn through a comb, presented particular challenges for the carver: individual strands required fine keyblock lines while the overall mass was printed in gradated black with careful wiping to suggest sheen. The domestic bathing context situates the figure in private space, consistent with Goyo's sustained interest in the unobserved woman as a subject for intimate observation.