“A Woman Combing her Hair” depicts Kodaira Tomi who was also employed as model for other artworks. Goyō is said to have liked the lines of the female neck to shoulders as portrayed by Rossetti, and this picture, too, is found to have influence from Rossetti’s “Lady Lilith”. However, here Goyō does not allow himself to be entirely lured by that influential source, rather being persuasive with his own steadfast aesthetics, digesting it naturally through the carving and printing of traditional woodblock. That pure expression instead brings to mind the words used by Goyō to describe the qualities of the beauty of Suzuki Harunobu: “Innocent-like, gentle women who know no hardships”. Likely a portrait of the ideal woman formed as the result of trial and error.