Born in Tokyo, Shimizu Kôichi studied at the Kawabata Painting school, and he was a student of Nagase Yoshi(r)o. In 1927 he first exhibited with the Nihon Sôsaku-Hanga Kyôkai, and with the Nihon Hanga Kyôkai in the 1930's. He also printed for several of his colleagues. He contributed a print to that most important print series of the late 1930's, One Hundred Views of New Japan - Shin Nihon hyakkei. The date of his date is not confirmed.
