Considerably diverging from his master Okyo's style by using the extreme contrast between black and white, big and small, or compositions that utterly ignore realism, Rosetsu's eccentric tendency manifests itself in the interior mural paintings which he made in Nanki.
黒白、大小の極端な対比や、写実を無視した構図など師である応挙の作風から逸脱しており、この傾向は南紀滞在の折の障壁画にはっきり表れている。