He was selected as a "Teishitsu Gigeiin" (selected artist by Imperial Household Ministry) and won the first Order of Culture and became the top of Kyoto painting circles both in name and reality.
また「帝室技芸員」にも選ばれ、第1回の文化勲章を受章し、名実共に京都画壇の筆頭となっていく。