Yanagi found more than 300 pieces of mokujiki-butsu within just an year, discovered fragmentary tracks of Mokujiki-butsu with inscriptions in black ink, sutras and guest records written by Mokuji, and he published "Research on Mokujiki-shonin" with Komiyama and the president of The Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun newspaper, Jiro NOGUCHI.
同年だけで300体以上の木喰仏を発見し、木喰仏の墨書銘や、納経帳や宿帳など自筆文書の発見により断片的な木喰の足跡が解明され、小宮山や山梨日日新聞社長の野口二郎らと雑誌『木喰上人之研究』を発刊する。