Mizushima Nihofu graduated at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He contributed six designs to the groundbreaking series of landscape prints Hanshin meisho zue - Pictures of famous places in Osaka and Kobe, published in 1916. In 1920 he wrote and illustrated Tokaidô gojÅ«san tsugi, Setonaikai - 53 stations of the Tokaidô, the Inland Sea. The rest of his career is rather obscure. He is cited by both Onchi Kôshirô and Ono Tadashige as one of the early sponsors of the Sôsaku Hanga movement, but the Western literature shows no examples of that work. The date of his death is not known.
