He became a valet of Arisugawa no Miya, and he studied the Shinnanpin-ha (the Shinnanpin school) and the MARUYAMA school, combined them, and produced decorative paintings with sharp brushwork on walls and screens mainly in Kyoto.
有栖川宮の近侍となり、沈南蘋派、円山派などを学び、これらを折衷し、主に京都で装飾的で筆法の鋭い障壁画などを描く。